FULL SCALE TEST ON THE BUILDING RESPONSE DUE TO TBM-TUNNELLING IN DUTCH SOFT SOIL

This paper deals with a full scale test on the influence of tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunnelling on adjacent buildings. The test will be carried out at the COB (Dutch Center of Underground Works) test site of the Sophia Railway tunnel nearby Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Twin tunnels (outer diameter of 9.45 m, horizontal offset of the tunnels 19.5 m, depth ca. 20 m below surface level) will be constructed in typical Western-Dutch soft soil with fully mechanized shield tunnelling (slurry mode). The tunnels pass four masonry houses (in March 2002), which are located inside the influence zone of the deformation field of the tunnels. The COB committee F220 has defined a research program to predict, monitor and analyse the deformation behaviour of these buildings during and after the passage of the tunnel. The results will be used to calibrate existing building damage assessment methods (numerical damage prediction and analytical empirical methods) for Dutch conditions. This paper describes the set-up of the test program, the objectives of the test and the installed monitoring systems.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

  Institute for Geotechnical Engineering
  Zurich,   Switzerland  8093
• Authors:
  • Netzel, H
• Conference:
  • Planning and Engineering for the Cities of Tomorrow. Second International Conference on Soil Structure Interaction in Urban Civil Engineering
  • Location: Zurich, Switzerland
  • Date: 2002-3-7 to 2002-3-8
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 271-275

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deformation; Dwellings; Monitoring; Soft soils; Tunneling; Tunneling machines; Urban areas
• Identifier Terms: Sophia Railway Tunnel
• Geographic Terms: Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Geotechnology; Highways; Public Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00930489
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 3000091696
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 5 2002 12:00AM