Underground Spaces : Design, Engineering and Environmental Aspects (Wit Transactions on the Built Environment)

✍ Scribed by C. A. Brebbia, D. Kaliampakos, P. Prochazka

• Publisher: WIT Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Wit Transactions on the Built Environment
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is a strongly held belief that population growth and the demand forbetter accommodation and leisure facilities, combined with a desire toimprove the landscape, will result in the need to develop more underground spaces. This phenomenon, which started in countries subjected to extremeclimates, is now becoming more widespread.Underground spaces are being utilized for a wide diversity of needs. Theyrange from classical excavations to subway constructions; underground sports halls; power stations; waste repositories; underground cities, and many others. Their construction techniques are also varied, from open-air excavations to newly developed injection methods.The response of the underground structures on the imposed loadings depends on a number of parameters that sometimes are too complex or not fully understood, resulting in budget overruns or even failures that lead to loss of property or life. Such uncertain cases need to be addressed and engineers should be able to accurately predict the construction's performancethroughout its construction and service life.The First International Conference on Underground Spaces discussed not only structural and environmental material characterization aspects but also the trends regarding the utilization of underground spaces. This book contains papers presented at the Meeting, and covers a wide range of topics including: Use of underground space for industry; Underground powerstations; Toxic and nuclear waste repositories; Energy undergroundreservoirs; Underground sewerage plants; Waste storage and management; Road and railway tunnels; Utility tunnels; Fire defence; Defence against terrorist attacks.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Underground Spaces......Page 2
Copyright page......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Underground space development: setting modern strategies......Page 16
Blast impact on structures of underground parking......Page 26
Artificial intelligence in underground development: a study of TBM performance......Page 36
Reinforcement fibers in concrete envelopes of underground nuclear power stations......Page 48
The hydrogeological problems of disused mines in Olgiate Molgora (LC)......Page 58
Management of complex underground construction projects......Page 68
Underground nuclear parks: new approach for the deployment of nuclear energy systems......Page 78
Use of a numerical model for underground stability evaluation......Page 86
Tunnel face stability as a function of the purchase length......Page 96
3-dimensional mesh generation using the Delaunay method......Page 106
Emergency guidelines for two abandoned mines in Piani dei Resinelli area (Lecco)......Page 114
Damage zones near excavations: plastic solution by means of stress trajectories......Page 124
CFD simulation of aerodynamic resistance in underground spaces ventilation......Page 134
Fragments of a buried urban past revealed through multi-layered voids hidden below the mosque of St. Daniel: the case of the underground museum in Tarsus......Page 144
Increase of stability of underground works......Page 154
Underground spaces and indoor comfort: the case of "Sassi di Matera"......Page 164
Rock burst mechanics as a time dependent event......Page 174
Spatial organization and economic analysis in sustainable transit oriented development......Page 184
The effect of a baffle on the heat transfer in underground auxiliary ventilation systems......Page 194
Parameter identification of the elastic modulus of ground rock based on blasting using the first order adjoint method......Page 204
Author Index......Page 214