Ground Characterization and Structural Analyses for Tunnel Design

This book focuses on ground characterization and structural calculation for rock tunnelling, offering a comprehensive perspective and practical design criteria derived from basic principles. It incorporates the authors' twenty years of tunnelling experience and is suitable for professionals seeking a career in underground fields.

Format: Hardback
Length: 454 pages
Publication date: 20 August 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

This comprehensive and design-focused book delves into the realm of ground characterization and structural calculation, serving as a vital component of the active structural design methodology. With a strong emphasis on rock tunneling, it presents a comprehensive rather than a topic-based perspective, drawing upon fundamental principles to establish robust tunnel design criteria and methodologies. The ground characterization process encompasses a range of activities, including excavations, site investigations, and in situ stress determination, culminating in the classification of geological conditions.

The book then proceeds to explore diverse construction methods and their corresponding calculations, encompassing a wide spectrum from constitutive models for the stress-strain behavior of excavations and tunnel support elements to a comprehensive stress-strain analysis methodology.

The book's practical approach, honed through the authors' extensive twenty years of tunnelling experience in Spain and South America, makes it an invaluable resource for both young and established professionals seeking a career in the underground field, spanning civil engineering and geology. Its foundational nature makes it suitable as a support for tunneling courses or as a textbook for advanced studies, such as masters and PhD programs.

Benjamín Celada, a renowned expert in tunneling engineering, held the position of Chief Tunnel Engineer at Hunosa and Potasas de Navarra S.A. before founding Geocontrol S.A. He has also served as a Professor of Underground Works at the Polytechnic Mining University in Madrid, Spain, for a remarkable twenty years.

Z. T. Bieniawski, a distinguished scholar in rock mechanics, directed the Rock Mechanics Department of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria before embarking on a twenty-year teaching tenure at the Pennsylvania State University.

Weight: 1098g
Dimension: 185 x 261 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780815386629