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Home / Web Directory / Transportation Engineering / Tunnel Engineering

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Fire in Transport Tunnel / Research on Rapidly Heated Concrete
A MIT research project. The page has papers and computer simulations.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersy
Contains resources about Holland Tunnel, Lincoln Tunnel and bridge rehabilitation.

But, Surely, Dynamic Measurements are Only for Special Projects, Eh?
Fellenius, B., Geotechnical News Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 1992.

Tunnel Construction and Safety
A site dedicated to civil engineering health and safety and risk issues within the tunneling industry.

Tunnel Engineering
A Federal Highway Administration site containing current research project overviews.





Technical Articles

A General Report Upon the Initiation and Construction of the Tunnel Under The East River, New York, to the President and Directors of the East River Gas Company
This is a facsimile of the 1894 book by Charles M. Jacobs.

A Gowanus Tunnel: An Initial Feasibility Study
Prepared by a Regional Plan Association Study Team.

Berlin Rail Tunnel Lurches Forward
A $2.4-billion passage will link Germany's united capital.

Optimizing safety in tunneling
Overview of a research project of geotechnical engineering.

Special Purpose Simulation Template for Utility Tunnel Construction
A conference paper written by J. Ruwanpura.

The Soundness of the Longest Tunnel in the World
An article from Civil Engineering, JSCE 1997.

The Two Base Tunnel of the Alptransit Project: Lotschberg and Gotthard
A specific problem arises from tunneling through critical geological formations at great depth under extremely high water pressure.

Tunnel Fire
How to determine the safety in a tunnel fire.

Completing the "Big Dig": Managing the Final Stages of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project (2003)
A report by Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Transportation Research Board (TRB).







 
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