Course Details
Underground Engineering
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. The main construction elements of underground structures. The basic design elements for separate types of underground structures.
2. Classification of surroundings for underground structures, classification systems.
3. State of stress of rocky massive round of tunnel excavation, arch theory, load of lining by the part of primary stress.
4. Tunnel systems for large profiles - New Austrian Tunnel Method.
5. Tunnel systems for large profiles – Adeco –rs method.
6. Tunnel Sequential Machines(TSM) and Tunnel Boring Machines(TBM) Shield tunnelling by open and closed shields, special shields.
7. Material models – Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek-Brown model.
8. Material models – Hoek-Brown model (contin.), Jointed rock model.
9. Material model - Jointed rock model (contin.).
10. The design of primary lining.
11. Material model – Shotcerete.
12. Modelling of rock bolts and anchors.
13. Excavation and projecting of shafts.