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Underground Engineering
FAST-DFB023Acad. 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. Theoretical description of selected material models (Mohr-Coulomb model, Hoek-Brown model, Jointed rock model, Shotcrete model) used in mathematical modeling of underground structures.
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BICKEL, John O., KUESEL, Thomas R., a KING, Elwyn H. Tunnel Engineering Handbook. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8053-5 (EN)
KOLYMBAS, Dimitrios. Tunnelling and Tunnel Mechanics. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-25196-5. (EN)
MUIR WOOD, Alan. Tunnelling. Management by Design. E a FN Spon, London, 2000. ISBN 0-419-23200-I. (EN)
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- Programme DPC-K Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme DPA-K Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme DPC-K Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme DKA-K Doctoral 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
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