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Herrenknecht
Herrenknecht AG is a German family-owned company in Schwanau, Baden-Württemberg, founded by Martin Herrenknecht in 1977, that builds tunnel boring machines; it holds an estimated 19 percent share of the global TBM market.
History of immersed tube tunnelling
The history of immersed tube tunnelling runs from Wyatt's 1810 brick cylinders through the 1890s Shirley Gut siphon and the 1910 Detroit River Tunnel to two traditions, the American steel shell and the European concrete box.
History of the London Underground
The history of the London Underground runs from the Metropolitan Railway of 1863, the world's first underground railway, through the 1890 electric tube to today's 11-line network.
History of the shield tunnelling method
The history of the shield tunnelling method begins with Marc Isambard Brunel, who patented the first tunnelling shield in 1818 and used it to build the Thames Tunnel.
History of tunnel boring machines
The history of tunnel boring machines spans Marc Brunel's 1818 shield for the Thames Tunnel and James Robbins' first modern TBM, built for South Dakota's Oahe Dam in 1952.
Immersed tube
An immersed tube, also called an immersed tunnel, is a subaqueous tunnel of prefabricated elements floated out, sunk into a dredged trench, and joined underwater.
Immersed tube tunnel
An immersed tube tunnel is an underwater tunnel built by sinking prefabricated tube elements into a trench and joining them underwater, first used in Boston Harbor in 1893.
James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead (1844–1896) was a South African-born British civil engineer whose cylindrical tunnelling shield, first used on the Tower Subway in 1869, made deep-level tunneling through soft ground practical and underpinned the London Underground.
Kingsway tramway subway
The Kingsway tramway subway, also known as the Kingsway tram tunnel, was an underground tram tunnel in central London, opened in 1906 and closed in 1952.
Marmaray Tunnel
The Marmaray Tunnel is a railway tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, whose immersed tube section connects the European and Asian sides, opened in 2013.
Microtunneling
Microtunneling is a trenchless construction method in which a remotely controlled, laser-guided microtunnel boring machine excavates a bore while product pipe is hydraulically jacked into place behind it.
Multi-mode and convertible tunnel boring shields
A multi-mode or convertible tunnel boring shield is a tunnel boring machine that switches between open, EPB, and slurry modes in a single drive through alternating soft ground and rock.
NATM in soft ground
NATM in soft ground, known in the United States as the Sequential Excavation Method (SEM), applies the New Austrian Tunnelling Method's sequential excavation with sprayed-concrete lining to soils such as clays, silts, and sands.
New Austrian tunneling method
The New Austrian tunneling method (NATM) is a tunnel construction method that mobilizes the self-supporting capacity of the ground, using a monitored shotcrete shell and rock bolts.
Northern Heavy Industries Group
Northern Heavy Industries Group is a Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer based in Shenyang, formed in 2006, that makes tunnel boring machines from 3 to 15 meters in diameter.
Open (main beam) tunnel boring machine
An open (main beam) tunnel boring machine, or gripper TBM, is a shieldless hard-rock machine that advances by gripping the tunnel walls as its thrust base.
Open-face shield tunnelling
Open-face shield tunnelling is a method in which a rigid steel shield is pushed through soft ground with the tunnel face left unsupported, workers protected by boards, shelves, and hoods.
Peter W. Barlow
Peter W. Barlow, also known as Peter William Barlow, was an English civil engineer who patented a cylindrical tunnelling shield in 1864, used in the Tower Subway.
Pipe jacking
Pipe jacking is a trenchless construction method in which hydraulic jacks push prefabricated pipes through the ground between shafts, typically for sewers and utility crossings under roads and railways.
Posey and Webster Street Tubes
The Posey and Webster Street Tubes are a pair of immersed vehicular tunnels carrying State Route 260 beneath the Oakland Estuary, linking Alameda with Oakland, California.
Prefabrication
Prefabrication, also called prefabricated construction, is a construction method in which components are manufactured under controlled conditions, then transported and assembled on site, as in immersed tube tunnels.
Rock bolt
A rock bolt, also called a roof bolt, is a steel or composite rod anchored in drilled rock with a plate to reinforce tunnels, mines, slopes, and dams.
Safety and working environment in shield tunnelling
Safety in shield tunnelling is the occupational control regime for shield machines: hyperbaric working rules, chamber entry, ventilation and fire management, and ground control during mining and ring erection.
Segmental lining (tunnel)
A segmental lining is a tunnel wall built from precast reinforced-concrete segments erected ring by ring behind a tunnel boring machine, serving as the permanent support of shield-driven tunnels.
Shield drive operation: steering, grouting and settlement control
Shield drive operation is the phase of shield tunnelling in which a tunnel boring machine is steered along its alignment, with grouting and monitoring controlling settlement.
Shield machine components and systems
A shield machine is a tunnel boring machine whose cylindrical steel shield protects workers as it excavates a tunnel and erects its segmental lining in one operation.
Shield tunnelling incidents and failures
Shield tunnelling incidents and failures are the collapses, blowouts, and face-loss events during shield-machine excavation, including cases such as Singapore's Nicoll Highway collapse of 2004.
Shoring
Shoring is a temporary or permanent structural system used to support the sides of an excavation and prevent cave-in or collapse, commonly using soldier pile, sheet pile, and diaphragm walls.
Shotcrete
Shotcrete, also called gunite or sprayed concrete, is concrete projected at high velocity from a nozzle, used for tunnel support, slope stabilization, and repair work.
Single-shield tunnel boring machine
A single-shield tunnel boring machine (single-shield TBM) is a hard-rock boring machine that thrusts against the segmental lining it erects, so boring and ring building alternate rather than overlap.