SUBSURFACE EXPLORATION METHODS FOR SOFT GROUND RAPID TRANSIT TUNNELS. VOLUME I: SECTIONS 1-6 AND REFERENCES

The objectives of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) Tunneling Program are to lower subway construction costs and reduce construction hazards and damage to the environment. Some measure of each of these objectives for bored tunnels and deep excavations can be achieved through a more detailed knowledge of the subsurface and of how changes in soil types or characteristics will affect construction. This study assesses subsurface exploration methods with respect to their ability to provide adequate data for the construction of rapid transit, soft-ground bored and cut-and-cover tunnels.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Soil and Rock Instrumentation, Inc., Newton Upper Falls, Mass. Also available in set of 2 reports as PB-258342-SET.
• Corporate Authors:

  Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Incorporated

  One Penn Plaza
  New York, NY  United States  10119

  Soil and Rock Instrumentation, Incorporated

  Newton Upper Falls, MA  United States 

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • SCHMIDT, B
  • Matarazzi, B
  • Dunnicliff, C J
  • Alsup, S
• Publication Date: 1976-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 203 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction; Costs; Cut and cover tunneling; Economic analysis; Excavation and tunneling; Geological events; Geological surveying; Geophysical prospecting; Rapid transit; Soft soils; Soil mechanics; Soils; Structural design; Subways; Surveying; Surveying; Surveys; Tunneling; Tunnels
• Uncontrolled Terms: Construction costs; Tunnel design
• Old TRIS Terms: Geologic investigations; Geological conditions; Rapid transit railways; Subsurface explorations; Subway construction; Tunnel excavation
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Economics; Finance; Geotechnology; Highways; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00144012
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-UMTA-76-3.1 Final Rpt., UMTA-MA-06-0025-76-1
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-654
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 15 1981 12:00AM