Course Details
Underground Engineering
Academic Year 2025/26
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.