Tunneling Engineering Syllabus for VTU BE 2017 Scheme (Open Elective-2)

Tunneling Engineering detail syllabus for various departments, 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17MN661), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.

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Course Objectives:

This course will enable students to:

1. Design tunnels, rock support and grouting and evaluate the most important issues in the procedure
2. Evaluate tunnel excavation method from technical and production aspects
3. Analyze cost and time for ordinary tunnels based on risks and construction management principles
4. Carry out a basic design of tunnel ventilation

Module 1
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Module 2

Tunnelling Methods: Types and purpose of tunnels; factors affecting choice of excavation technique; Methods – soft ground tunneling, hard rock tunneling, shallow tunneling, deep tunneling; Shallow tunnels – cut and cover, cover and cut, pipe jacking, jacked box excavation techniques, methods of muck disposal, supporting, problems encountered in tunneling and remedial measures.

Module 3

Tunneling by Drilling and Blasting: Unit operations in conventional tunneling; Drilling – drilling principles, drilling equipment, drilling tools, drill selection, rock drillability factors; Blasting – explosives, initiators, blasting mechanics, blast hole 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 4
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Module 5

Supports in Tunnels: Different types of supports in tunneling and their applicability, NATM. Ground Treatment in Tunnelling: Adverse ground conditions and its effect on tunneling; introduction to ground control. Tunnel Services: Ventilation, drainage and pumping Tunnelling Hazards: Explosion, flooding, chimney formation, squeezing ground.

Course Outcomes:

At the end of the course students will be able to:

1. Design tunnels, rock support and grouting and evaluate the most important issues in the procedure
2. Evaluate tunnel excavation method from technical and production aspects
3. Analyze cost and time for ordinary tunnels based on risks and construction management principles
4. Carry out a basic design of tunnel ventilation

Text Books:

1. Driving Horizontal Workings and Tunnel, by Pokorovski, Mir Publishers, 1980.
2. Harbour, Dock and Tunneling Engineering by R. Srinivasan Published by R. C. Pattii, Chal’otar Book Stall, Station Road TulsiSada, Arland (W. Rly), India.

Reference Books:

1. Rock Mechanics and Design in Mining and Tunneling, by Bieniawski, Z.T., Rotterdam A.A. Balkema, 1984.
2. Drilling and Blasting of Rocks, by Carlos L Jimeno, A.A. Balkema/Rotterdam/Brookfield 1995.
3. Hoek, E., Brown, E. Underground excavations in Rock, CRC Press, 1980.
4. Hoek, E. and Brady, J. D. Rock Slope Engineering, Taylor and Francis, 1981
5. Nick Barton, Tunnel Boring Machines, 2000

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