Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel shield tunnelling site. Credit: China Railway Tunnel Group/Business Wire. China’s intelligent shield tunnelling technology has been successfully implemented in the ...

Slurry shield tunnelling is a widely adopted method for stabilising tunnel faces during excavation in saturated and highly permeable soils. This process relies on a pressurised slurry—typically a ...

Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

Workers in China have set a new record by completing the task of building the world's largest-diameter underwater shield tunnel. The two mile section of the underwater shield segments is completed, as ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...