Thesis
Foam as a soil conditioner in tunnelling: physical and mechanical properties of conditioned sands
- Abstract:
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Earth pressure balance (EPB) tunnelling machines are commonly used for the construction of tunnels in soft soils. These machines use the excavated soil in a pressurised head chamber to apply a support pressure to the tunnel face during excavation. How well an unstable face is supported in an EPB machine depends on effectively transferring a constant pressure from the support medium to the surface of the face. If the support pressure is not constant, but instead changes, the varying pressure i...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2007
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:3083
- Deposit date:
- 2009-11-25
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- Copyright holder:
- M. A. Peña Duarte
- Copyright date:
- 2007
- Notes:
- For copyright reasons some figures have been removed from the pdf version of this thesis.
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