Practical Guide to Rock Tunneling - Softcover

Brox, Dean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367782189 ISBN 13: 9780367782184

Verlag: CRC Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This practical guide to the design and construction of tunnels in rock covers all the critical steps, from geotechnical site investigations through to construction supervision. The book provides recommendations for practitioners on such topics as laboratory testing, durability of rock and acceptance for unlined water conveyance tunnels, overstressi

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Dean Brox has over 30 years of experience as a tunneling practitioner with more than 1200 km of major tunneling and infrastructure projects around the world. Dean graduated in 1985 from the Geological Engineering Program of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1985 and obtained his Master in Science in Engineering Rock Mechanics with Distinction from Imperial College, London, in 1990. Dean started his career in underground mining rock mechanics in South Africa before moving into tunneling for civil engineering infrastructure projects around the world including the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, the Hong Kong Airport Core Projects, and the Gotthard Base Rail Tunnel in Switzerland. Dean has extensive experience with tunnels for hydropower projects and his areas of particular interest include high speed drill and blast excavation of long tunnels, long and deep TBM excavated tunnels, overstressing of deep or weak rock tunnels, asset performance of hydropower tunnels and TBM applicability assessments for mining projects. Dean practices as an independent consulting engineer and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367782189
• ISBN 13: 9780367782184
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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