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Underground Engineering
FAST-ZF52Acad. year: 2023/2024
History, nomenclature and terminology in the underground structures. The basic design elements of underground structures. Geotechnical survey for underground structures, influence of technology to their layout. Classification of surroundings for uderground structures. Theory of rock pressures. Tunnel systems and schemes for major profiles, classic systems, ring method. The New Austrian Tunnel Method (NATM), Tunnel Sequential Machines (TSM) and Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), shield tunnelling by open and closed shields, PERFOREX method. Improvement of environmental at driving, silting, rawing-out. Explosive works. Drilling, loading and transport of muck. Excavation of shafts. Driving of galleries. Ventilation and protection of underground structures against water. Excavaten underground structures. Microtunnelling.
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GUDEHUS,G.: Finite elements in geomechanics. J.Wiley&Sons 1979
KLEPSATEL,F., KUSÝ,P., MAŘÍK,L.: Výstavba tunelů ve skalních horninách. Jaga group, Bratislava 2003
KOLYMBAS,D.: Geotechnik – Tunnelbau und Tunnelmechanik. Springer 1997
KOLYMBAS,D.: Tunneling Mechanics-Advances in Geotechnical Engineering and Tunnelling. Logos Verlag, Berlin 2001
SINHA,R.S.: Underground Structures (Design and Instrumentation). Elsevier 1979
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- Programme D-P-C-SI (N) Doctoral
branch KDS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-K-C-SI (N) Doctoral
branch KDS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme D-K-E-CE (N) Doctoral
branch KDS , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
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