Course Details

Underground Engineering

Academic Year 2025/26

DFB023 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DKC-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DPA-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DPC-K Winter Semester 2nd year

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.