THE AUTOMATED UNDERGROUND: COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF BOSTON'S CENTRAL ARTERY PROJECT

Computer applications related to underground construction are described as they are being applied to Boston's Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project. The project is currently one of the largest highway projects in the country. Computer applications include a geotechnical boring log management system, spreadsheets for tunnel analysis and design, finite-element studies of soil-structure interaction for a construction excavation problem, and software that draws flow nets. Each application is outlined, and problems and future improvements to the methods are discussed.

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  Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Incorporated

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• Authors:
  • Tah, JHM
  • Price, ADF
• Publication Date: 1990-3

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 71-81
• Serial:
  • Microcomputers in Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
  • ISSN: 0885-9507

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Design; Excavation; Fills; Flow net; Geotechnical engineering; Information processing; Tunneling; Tunnels; Underground structures
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts)
• Old TRIS Terms: Excavation, borrow specification; Underground
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00602819
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1990 12:00AM