Engineering Geology for Underground Works

✍ Scribed by Paola Gattinoni, Enrico Maria Pizzarotti, Laura Scesi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The construction of tunnels involves the resolution of various complex technical problems depending on the geological and geological-environmental context in which the work fits.

Only a careful analysis of all the geological and geological-environmental issues and a correct reconstruction of the conceptual model can lead to optimal design solutions from all points of view (including financial) and ensure the safety of workers during the construction and users in the operation phase.

It was therefore felt that there was a need to collect in one volume the state of current knowledge about:

• all the geological and environmental issues related to the construction of underground works
• the different methodologies used for the reconstruction of the conceptual model
• the different risk typologies that it is possible to encounter or that can arise from tunnel construction, and
• the most important risk assessment, management and mitigation methodologies that are used in tunneling studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Geological Problems in Underground Works Design and Construction....Pages 1-29
Environmental-Geological Problems due to Underground Works....Pages 31-51
Geological Conceptual Model for Underground Works Design....Pages 53-96
Underground Excavation Analysis....Pages 97-142
Geological Risk Management....Pages 143-159
Risk Mitigation and Control....Pages 161-214
Ground-Structure Interaction....Pages 215-263
Monitoring....Pages 265-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-305

✦ Subjects

Environmental Science and Engineering; Natural Hazards; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk