Course Details
Underground Structures
Academic Year 2024/25
BFA007 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. History and evolution of underground structures. Nomenclature of underground structures by various criterions. Terminology.
2. The main construction elements of underground structures. The basic design elements for separate types of underground structures.
3. Geotechnical survey for underground structures, pilot galleries, influence of geotechnical proportions into the underground structures layout.
4. State of stress of rocky massive round of tunnel excavation, arch theory, load of lining by the part of primary stress. Tunnel systems for major profiles.
5. Classic and modern tunnel systems. Ring method, press concrete, Bernold system.
6. The New Austrian Tunneling Method.
7. Tunnel Sequential Machines(TSM) and Tunnel Boring Machines(TBM)
8. Shield tunnelling by open and closed shields, special shields.
9. Improvement of environmental during driving. Silting, drawing - out.
10. Explosive works, drilling, loading and transport of muck. Excavation of shafts.
11. Protection of underground structures against water. Ventilation of underground structures. Excavated underground structures. Microtunnelling.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus