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  • SME
    Tunneling By Mole

    By Robert G. Pinkerton

    Boyles Bros. Drilling Co. and Gibbons and Reed Company, both of Salt Lake City, Utah, have successfully combined into two joint ventures on the San Juan-Chama project of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamatio

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Tunneling Challenges in the Nation?s Capital

    By Moussa Wone

    The Washington, DC Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) has implemented facility planning for the Anacostia River Projects portion of a program to bring its Combined Sewer System (CSO) into compliance wit

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Tunneling Data: Turning Information into Intelligence on the NEIS Project

    By John McDonald, Peter C. Raleigh, Christopher Dishlip

    This paper will discuss how the construction management team and the contractor working together on the City of Los Angeles, North East Interceptor Sewer project, managed information on a daily basis.

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Tunneling for High-Energy Physics in Menlo Park, CA - RETC2023

    By Irene Bendanillo, Canon Cheung, Justin Lianides, Derek Penrice

    The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s two-mile-long particle accelerator generates the world’s brightest X-rays from its Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) freeelectron laser. This facility has d

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Tunneling for the Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line in Bangkok

    By S. Suwansawat, D. J. Maconochie, C. C. Chang

    This paper describes the overall delivery of the tunneling for the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand’s Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line in Bangkok and the constraints provided by the alignment. Eigh

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Tunneling for the Eastlink Project, Melbourne, Australia

    By Peter Campi, Harry R. Asche, Ian P. Callow, Edmund G. Taylor, P. Scott Smith

    The US$1,850 million EastLink project is a 39km tollway and includes twin 3-lane,1.5km long, undrained driven tunnels. The hard rock tunnels are being built to avoid passing the motorway through the M

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AIME
    Tunneling In A Subfreezing Environment

    By John M. McAnerney

    In 1955, the U.S. Army started to experiment in Greenland with tunneling in glacial ice and later in frozen glacial moraine. By 1960, long adits and experimental rooms had been successfully excavated.

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Tunneling in Abrasive Alluvial Material Above the Water Table Using a MTBM and an EPBTBM - RETC2021

    By D. Lynn, D. Arthur

    Infrastructures continue to age and drinking water supplies are becoming scarce in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Inc. (FKCI) was engaged by the Los

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Tunneling in Close Proximity to Structures in Downtown Los Angeles - A Brief Overview of Settlement Effect Evaluations

    By Shawna Von Stockhausen, Hong Yang, Tung T. Vu, Derek Penrice, Kevin Huynh

    "The Regional Connector Transit Corridor is a 1.9 mile long light rail transit project in downtown Los Angeles, California. The project includes approximately 4,930 feet of twin bored tunnels together

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Tunneling In Residual Soil And Rock

    By Lee W. Abramson, Kenneth P. Akins

    The authors have accumulated published data on residual soil and rock tunnels in the United States and have compared it to transit tunneling experience in Atlanta, Georgia, and tunnels in other soil a

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Tunneling In Saprolites -- Soil Or Rock?

    By Brenda Myers-Bohlke, Tor L. Brekke

    INTRODUCTION In recent years several cities in the Eastern United States have constructed subway systems in deeply weathered igneous and metamorphic rocks. Portions of these transit tunnels and sha

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Tunneling in the Cooper Marl of Charleston, South Carolina

    By Michael J. Robison, Wojciech F. Klecan, Robert L. Horner

    Since 1928, nearly 64 km (40 mi) of tunnel have been excavated within the relatively soft Cooper Group, more commonly known as the “Cooper Marl,” for water supply and transporting wastewater in the Ch

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Tunneling in Thinly Foliated Rockmass Conditions

    By H. S. Venkatesh, G. Gopinath, R. Balachander, G. C. Naveen

    Punatsangchu Hydroelectric Project Authority is constructing 1020 MW underground hydroelectric project in Bhutan. The project envisages construction of concrete dam, Desilting Chamber, Head Race Tunne

    Feb 1, 2020

  • SME
    Tunneling in Toronto Shale—Construction of Coxwell Bypass Tunnel Project - RETC2021

    By Ehsan Alavi, Daniel Cressman, Tatiana Chiesa, Robert Mayberry

    The City of Toronto’s Coxwell Bypass Tunnel (CBT) is currently being constructed by North Tunnel Constructors ULC. The scope of the CBT project includes construction of approximately 10.5 km of 6.3 me

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Tunneling Machines

    By Neil J. Dahmen, Howard J. Handewith

    INTRODUCTION Tunneling machines were introduced into civil con¬struction in the 1800s, but their practical applications were not realized fully until the 1950s. As of 1977, tunneling machines were

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Tunneling Methods Under Low Cover Conditions

    By Terry M. Tilley, Gregory P. Sherry

    Purpose This is a unique project because the mining and tunneling industries have become highly mechanized and cannot normally accommodate a project where surface disturbance must be minimized or e

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Tunneling on the Tren Urbano Project, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    By Michael Gay, W. H. Hansmire, G. Rippentrop, V. S. Romero

    The new Tren Urbano heavy rail transit project in San Juan, Puerto Rico has one very significant part, the Río Piedras Contract, being constructed underground. This paper will give an overview of the

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AIME
    Tunneling on Top of the World

    By T. L. Johnston

    MUCH has been said and written about deep mine shafts and deep drill holes as man in his search for mineral wealth digs deeper into the earth's crust. Each year some new extra depth is heralded a

    Jan 1, 1939

  • SME
    Tunneling Safety -- Regulations And Rewards

    By Robert Vergie

    Like most of you, I would rather work on a job than talk about it. But it is fruitful to spend some time taking stock of important developments in the heavy construction field. One of the strongest

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Tunneling Settlement Effect on an Escalator Shaft at Bond Street Station Upgrade

    By Anita Wu

    "GENERAL BACKGROUND/CONTEXT The £300 million Bond Street Station Upgrade project will provide essential congestion relief and step-free access to an important interchange and destination station in th

    Jan 1, 2016