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This is a comprehensive text on Civil Excavations at the surface as well as subsurface locales, including tunnels that could be created with or without aid of explosives using latest methods, equipment and techniques with due consideration to safety and the environment. Surface excavations include benching, trenching, channelling, pitting, demolishing, road construction and constructions related to Civil and Construction Projects. Techniques to create a network of vertical, inclined and horizontal openings (Drifting, Raising and Sinking) that is required while constructing caverns for different purposes such as repository, oil storage, power generation and recreation facilities for general public have also been included. Key coverage: • Criteria to select equipment have been demonstrated through a case study which gives consideration to factors related to environment, safety, ergonomics, and the economy. • An attempt has been made in to give comprehensive treatment to modern partial-face borers, full-face tunnel borers, multi-tool miner (MTM) attachments and impact hammers/hydraulics. • Tunnelling methods are also described including new Austrian tunneling method (NATM); Lee's tunn

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Author

Tatiya, Ratan

Publisher

Thomas Telford Publishing

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780727733405

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Mathematics, Technology