BTCVE706F: Tunneling and Underground Excavations Syllabus for CV 7th Sem 2018-19 DBATU (Elective-V)

Tunneling and Underground Excavations detailed syllabus scheme for Civil Engineering (CV), 2018-19 onwards has been taken from the DBATU official website and presented for the Bachelor of Technology students. For Subject Code, Course Title, Lecutres, Tutorials, Practice, Credits, and other information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For 7th Sem Scheme of Civil Engineering (CV), 2018-19 Onwards, do visit CV 7th Sem Scheme, 2018-19 Onwards. For the Elective-V scheme of 7th Sem 2018-19 onwards, refer to CV 7th Sem Elective-V Scheme 2018-19 Onwards. The detail syllabus for tunneling and underground excavations is as follows.

Tunneling and Underground Excavations Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CV) 4th Year 7th Sem 2018-19 DBATU

Tunneling and Underground Excavations

Module 1 – (06 Lectures)

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Module 2 – (08 Lectures)

Tunneling by Drilling and Blasting: Unit operations in conventional tunneling; Drilling – drilling principles, drilling equipment, drilling tools, drill selection, specific drilling; Blasting – explosives, initiators, blasting mechanics, blast holes nomenclature; types of cuts- fan, wedge and others; blast design, tunnel blast performance – powder factor, parameters influencing, models for prediction; mucking and transportation equipment selection.

Module 3 – (06 Lectures) Tunneling by

Road headers and Impact Hammers: Cutting principles, method of excavation, selection, performance, limitations and problems. Tunneling by Tunnel Boring Machines:Boring principles, method of excavation, selection, performance, limitations and problems; TBM applications.

Module 4 – Excavation of large and deep tunnels (06 Lectures)

Module 5 – (06 Lectures)

Shield Tunneling: Introduction; advantages of shield tunneling; classification; different types of shield tunneling techniques – open shield, close shield, half shield; conventional shields, special features in shield tunneling; factors affecting selection of a shield; slurry shield, earth pressure balance shield, slime shields, other shield development methods, problems encountered with possible remedies.

Module 6 – (04 Lectures)

Submerged and Floating Tunnels; Micro-tunneling; Trenchless excavation.Novel Excavation Techniques:Penetrating Cone Fracture, Bottom-hole pressurization, expanding cements, Diamond wire saw.

Text Books:

Reference Books:

Stack, B. Handbook of Mining and Tunnelling Machinery, Wiley, New Y ork
Chugh, C.P., Drilling Technology Handbook, Oxford & IBH Publication
J.O. Bickel and T.R. Kuesel Tunnel Engineering Handbook, CBS Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd. 2018
C.A. Brebbia, D. Kaliampakos, P. Prochazka, Underground Spaces Design, Engineering and Environmental Aspects, WIT Press 2008

Web links:

https://www.isrm.net
www.nirm.in
http://umich.edu/~gs265/tunnel.html
http://se.sze.hu/images/ngm_se108_1/Tunnels_2015-03-20_Toth_1-Excavation.pdf
https://www.usbr.gov/ssle/safety/RSHS/sec23.pdf
https://www. osha.gov/Publications/osha3115.html

Course Outcomes:

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

CO1: Understand types of tunnels and tunneling methods conforming to site conditions
CO2: Investigate various tunneling operations and relevant machinery required
CO3: Understand methods and operations of excavating large and deep tunnels
CO4: Propose suitable tunneling and excavations methods to optimize the same.

For detail syllabus of all subjects of Civil Engineering (CV) 7th Sem 2018-19 onwards, visit CV 7th Sem Subjects of 2018-19 Onwards.

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