Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference 2017 Proceedings.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Committee -- Session Chairs -- International Committee -- Part 1: Pressure Face TBM I -- Accomplishing Extraordinary Tasks as a Machine Supplierfor Metro Doha -- Innovations and Efficiency in Urban Tunnelling-A Case Study of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto, Ontario -- Wear of Cutting Tools on an EPB TBM Tunneling Through Glacial Soils -- Impact of Conditioned Soil Parameters on Tool Wear in Soft Ground Tunneling -- Removal of Interfering Tiebacks Using SEM in Advance of TBM Mining on the Regional Connector Project -- Port Mann Water Supply Tunnel: Lessons for the Future -- Part 2: Instrumentation and Monitoring -- Material Flow Reconciliation: Risk Management for Pressurized Face Tunneling -- Managing Ground Control with Earth Pressure Balance Tunneling on the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Project -- DC Clean Rivers Project: Geotechnical Instrumentation Programs for Protecting Critical Infrastructures in the Nation's Capital -- A Smart Disc Cutter Monitoring System Using Cutter Instrumentation Technology -- Part 3: Shafts -- Dugway Storage Tunnel Ground Freezing at the Shaft DST‑1: A Focus Study on the Successful Application of Ground Freezing Around an Open Shaft Excavation -- Design of the Hemphill Deep Pump Station Shafts Using Blind Bore Drilling Techniques -- Hecla Mining Lucky Friday No. 4 Shaft Challenges and Possibilities -- An Overview of the SR99 TBM Access Shaft, Seattle, Washington -- Gas Control in a Vertical Boring Machine Advanced Shaft in Shale -- Large Diameter and Deep Shafts: Unique Design and Construction Challenges -- Part 4: Grouting and Ground Modification I -- Cellular Backfill-A Review of Some of the Basics -- Copenhagen Cityringen Project: Big Data to Manage Quality Control in Megaprojects.

Copenhagen Cityringen Project: Complex Passage and Obstacle Removal Under Existing Metro Station -- Grouting and Ground Modification-Copenhagen Cityringen Project: Compensation and Jet Grouting as Mitigation Measures for TBM Operation Under Historical Building -- The Crossing Under the Alaskan Way Viaduct -- Part 5: Hard Rock TBM -- Rockbursts in TBM Tunnels-Analysis and Countermeasures -- Large-Diameter 20-Inch Disc Cutters: A Comparison of Tool Life and Performance on Hard Rock TBMs -- Successful Excavation of Mexico City's Emisor Poniente II Wastewater Tunnel-Use of a Dual-Mode, Crossover TBM in Challenging Geology -- High Cover TBM Tunneling in the Andes Mountains-A Comparative Study of Two Challenging Tunnel Projects in Chile -- Part 6: Conventional Tunneling -- John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project-Underground Works: Project Update and Challenges Encountered -- Sewer Tunnel Excavated Under and Adjacent to Treacherous Terrain, Including Landfills, Oil Refinery, Crowded Streets, and Significantly Contaminated Material and Utilities -- Design and Construction of the Capitol Connector Pedestrian Tunnel -- Geotechnical Considerations for the ORBEEC Drumanard Tunnel -- Part 7: Large-Span Tunnel Cavern -- Design and Construction of Indianapolis Pump Station Cavern -- Admiralty Station, Hong Kong: Rock Excavation and Support Challenges to Accommodate MTR's Two New Lines -- Completing the Second Avenue Subway Project, New York -- Permanent Lining Design for Downtown Los Angeles Cavern -- First Large-Diameter Hard Rock CSO Chamber in St. Louis -- Part 8: Future Tunneling -- Overvaal Rail Tunnel: Securing the Economic Arteries of the Rainbow Nation -- California High-Speed Rail-Connecting and Transforming California-Design Considerations for Tunnels -- Design of Atlanta Raw Water Supply Program.

Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Tunneled Outfall System -- Delivery of Design, Environmental Statement, Engineering, Construction Management of the UK's New High Speed Railway for the 21st Century -- Planning and Design of the New Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Outfall for the City of Toronto -- Planning of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Channel Tunnel -- Part 9: Pressure Face TBM II -- EPB or Slurry TBM? Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, Outfall Replacement Tunnel -- SR99 Bored Tunnel in Seattle: Performance and Challenges of "Bertha," the Largest TBM Ever -- Design and Implementation of a Large-Diameter, Dual-Mode "Crossover" TBM for the Akron Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel -- Cutterhead Protection in a Boulder Field Using Real-Time Vibration Monitoring -- EPB TBM Foam Generation -- Challenges Encountered During Tunneling on the First Street Tunnel Project -- Part 10: Risk Management -- Tunneling Risk Is Down, Uncertainty Is Up-Fifty Years of Experience and Case Studies -- Contract Packaging and Formation-Risk Informed or Ignored? -- DigIndy Tunnel System-Pleasant Run Deep Tunnel Optimization Yields Cost Savings and Improved Level of Service -- Reduce Urban Tunnel Utility Relocation Risk Through Early Relocation by Specialty Contractor -- The Importance of Collective Safety Buy-In from Project Mobilization -- Part 11: Major Projects -- Procurement and Delivery Strategies to Increase Competiveness on Tunnel Projects -- Design-Build Project Delivery: The Importance of Successful Coordination Between Designer and Contractor -- Construction of the Longest Road Tunnel in Mexico -- Semmering Base Tunnel: 17 Miles of SEM and TBM Tunneling Under Challenging Conditions in Austria -- Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project-Lessons Learned -- Tunneling Challenges on the Auckland City Rail Link, New Zealand.

Part 12: Innovation and Technology -- Game-Changing Technology for Overhead Ventilation Duct Construction in Large-Diameter Railway Tunnel -- The Use of Saturation Diving Techniques in Support of Pressurized Tunnels -- Use of Infrared Technology to Detect Backfill Voids Behind Steel Lining in Tunnels -- Use of "Command Chair" Simulator Technology to Optimize Modern TBM Performance -- Metro Doha-Continuous Tunnel Belt Application for One of the World's Largest Infrastructural Projects (A Challenge) -- Part 13: Tunnel Lining I -- Load-Bearing Capacity of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Tunnel Linings Under Combined Moment-Normal Force Loading Conditions -- Engineered and Safe Approach to Tunnel Segment Lining Installation with Dowelled-In Connectors on the First TBM Tunnel in Qatar -- Design of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Segmental Lining for the South Hartford CSO Tunnel -- Final Lining Design of the Ohio River Bridges East End Crossing Tunnel -- Construction Logistics for East Side Access CM006 Manhattan North Structures-A Study from Queens to Manhattan -- Cost-Effective Seismic Station-Tunnel Connections on Westside Subway Extension Project Section 1 -- Part 14: Stations and Cross Passages -- Cross-Passage Mining Using Different Supports in Different Grounds -- Systematic Cross-Passage Design and Construction Planning for Transit Tunnels -- Station Excavation and TBM Tunnel on Los Angeles Crenshaw Project -- Third Street Light Rail Phase 2, Central Subway Stations, San Francisco, CA-Utilization of Multiple Foundation Techniques -- Risk Reduction, Management, and Mitigation from Experience‑Based Learning During Construction of Cross Passages, Seattle, Washington -- Closing the Gap for Bogotá River Sanitation System Tunnels (Colombia) -- Part 15: Grouting and Ground Modification II -- Leak Mitigation Grouting for New York Subway Tunnels.

Complex Inner-City Tunnel Excavation by Means of the New Austrian Tunnel Method in Combination with a Hyperbaric Atmosphere -- Geologically Targeted Pre-Excavation Grouting Along the WestConnex M5 Tunnel, Sydney, Australia -- A Proactive Approach to Tieback Anchor De-tensioning -- Ground Freezing for Tunnel, Shafts, and Adits -- Exposing Young Engineers to Multiple Facets of Tunneling -- Part 16: Trenchless Tunneling -- Paradise Raw Water Intake: Fighting the Green River -- Dugway South CSO Relief and Conveyance Sewer, A Critical Connector -- Long-Distance Microtunnelling at Toronto Pearson International Airport -- Upper Limit Microtunneling Application to Meet Dam Safety and Operational Longevity -- Microtunneling in Georgian Bay Shale: Rebecca Trunk Wastewater Main, Oakville, Ontario -- Part 17: SEM/NATM -- Steep Inclined SEM Excavation-The "Uphill Machine"-at London Crossrail: Development and Application of a Safe Excavation System in Soft Ground -- Downtown Bellevue Tunnel-Concept Optimization Through Team Collaboration -- Comparative Application of NATM, TBM, and RBM Technologies -- Sequential Excavation Method with Ground Freezing for DC Water's First Street Tunnel -- Part 18: Difficult Ground -- Design of the Fort Wayne CSO Tunnel Through Complex/Wet Rock -- Rondout West Branch Bypass Tunnel-TBM Boring in Hard Rock Against High Water Pressure and High Water Inflows Beneath the Hudson River in New York -- Innovations on West Trunk Sewer Contract 2 -- Tunneling Through a Fault Zone at West Trunk -- Part 19: Tunnel Rehabilitation -- Sumner Tunnel Rehabilitation -- The Arlberg Tunnel Project-A Milestone in the Austrian Efforts to Increase Safety of the Road Tunnel Network -- Large-Diameter Sliplining Under Extreme Conditions: Rehabilitating the Oakland-Macomb Interceptor While Maintaining Service to 830,000 Customers -- Index -- Back Cover.

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