STARTING AND END SHAFTS OF THE SOPHIA RAILWAY TUNNEL
The Sophia railway tunnel in the west of the Netherlands is at the moment under construction as part of the Betuwelijn railway line, a freight line from the port of Rotterdam to Zevenaar near the German border. In this paper the design of the shafts at which the bored tunnel starts and ends will be discussed from a geotechnical point of view. Much attention will be paid to the equilibrium and the deformations of the shafts. The vertical equilibrium is an important item in the Netherlands, due to the very high ground water table. Because the starting shaft is unique in the absence of tension piles or anchors, the Dutch Center for Underground Construction (CUR-COB) used the opportunity to install test equipment to observe the heave at three depths under the shaft and to observe the behavior of the earth and water pressures. These data will be used for future deep building pits in the Netherlands, such as the North South metro line stations in Amsterdam.
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Corporate Authors:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Institute for Geotechnical Engineering
Zurich, Switzerland 8093 -
Authors:
- Schiphouwer, R A
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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; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 283-289
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Construction; Deformation; Design; Earth pressure; Equilibrium (Mechanics); Geotechnical engineering; Groundwater; Monitoring; Pits; Subway stations; Tunnel shafts; Urban areas; Water pressure; Water table
- Identifier Terms: Sophia Railway Tunnel
- Geographic Terms: Netherlands
- Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Geotechnology; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Public Transportation; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00930491
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 3000091696
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 6 2002 12:00AM