Options for Tunnelling 1993

Part A GENERAL SUBJECTS: Tunnelling in the 1980s and 1990s; The practice of tunnel immersion operations; Future tunnelling works in the greater Paris area; The risks involved in major infrastructural projects Comparative Case Studies; Design. Part B SOFT GROUND TUNNELLING: Comparative case studies: design studies for tunnels for Hong Kong's new airport railway; Preliminary study of alternative crossings of the Dutch High Speed Railway Line with the waterways Hollands Diep and Oude Maas; Tunnels versus bridges; Developments in immersed tunnels; Mined stations for the Los Angeles metro; Comparative design for a road-tunnel under the estuary Weser; Slow traffic tunnel Heinenoord, comparing five tunnelling methods; The underground crossing of Toulon - choice of execution methods; The option of construction method for shallow buried metro station; Criteria for the choice between cut-and-cover and underground tunnelling methods; Technical feasibility, costs and planning of drilled tunnels in western Holland; North-South light rail in Amsterdam; building from surface or bored tunnelling?. Part C Cut and Cover methods and Immersed and Submerged Floating Tunnels: increasing the railway capacity underneath Schiphol Airport; Studies on steel-concrete-steel sandwich construction for submerged tube tunnels; The Rotterdam Railway tunnel; design, construction, organisation; Underground station Wilhelminapier, Rotterdam; The Noord Tunnel, a special tunnel; The Fort Point Channel tunnel of the Boston Central Artery Project; The design of the Piet Heintunnel, Amsterdam- Wijker tunnel - environmental impact of de-watering of the approaches; Forces due to ship manoeuvring during immersion of tunnels; Ostereden, Stockholm-the Saltsjon crossing - comparative studies of two alternative solutions; Second life of construction docks for immersed tunnels. Submerged floating tunnels, a new type of structure with particular advantages for environmental protection; Underground Methods; Design and construction planning of underwater Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway Tunnel; Heathrow express high-speed rail link London, UK; Tunnelling under Cairo using bentonite slurry machines; Design & construction of the London Water Ring Main; Conceptional requirements for soft ground tunnel boring machines; Double-tube tunnelling method and the first application for a subway project in Japan; Long distance pipejacking through hard sticky clay and extremely soft ground in Sayreville, New Jersey; Large cross section tunnel excavation by chemical foam injection EPB shield; The PMF super shield tunnelling process expanding applications for earth pressure balanced shield tunnelling; Mined and cut-and-cover stations for a modern generation subway system; Performance observations during construction of the large span Milan metro (Venezia) station; In situ measurement and calculation of displacement field above slurry shields. (Part contents).