UNDERGROUND EXCAVATION - STATUS AND POTENTIAL

Paper traces the development of tunneling methods up to the present day machines that can excavate up to 1,000 ft per week. Today the problems and the timeframe in which to reach solutions are different, and there is an urgency that is far greater than in the past. Some research and development projects of special promise include large-scale material handling systems including transport of tunnel muck hydraulically as a slurry, excavation by water cannon and by thermal-mechanical fragmentation, rock melting, pumpable, liquid rock bolts, continuous lining operations, and various kinds of stress measurement and analysis and roof deformation studies.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference, San Francisco, Calif., June 24-27, 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum Engineers

  8307 Shaffer Parkway
  Littleton, CO  United States  80127-4012
• Authors:
  • Armstrong, E L
• Conference:
  • Presented at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference, San Francisco, Calif., June 24-27, 1974.
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 17-27
• Serial:
  • Volume: 1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction projects; Excavation; Materials management; Rock fracture; Rocks; Tunnel lining; Tunneling; Water cannons
• Old TRIS Terms: Excavation technology; Rock tunneling
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Geotechnology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00129114
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proc Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 19 1976 12:00AM