Course Details

Underground Structures

Academic Year 2025/26

BFA007 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / K Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vladislav Horák, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289759

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

  • 1. Introduction, conditions for credit, introduction to the issues – video.
  • 2. Classification of surroundings for underground structures, classification systems, classification according to Tesař.
  • 3. Primary and secondary state of stress mass.
  • 4. Rock arch theories.
  • 5. Statical calculations of tunnel linings.
  • 6. Rigid tunnel lining – 1st part.
  • 7. Rigid tunnel lining – complete.
  • 8. Circular elastic lining water pressure tunnels.
  • 9. Settlement trough of the tunnel.
  • 10. Mikrotunnelling – pipe jacking.
  • 11. Control of a work and credit.