Course Details

Underground Engineering

Academic Year 2024/25

DFB023 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DPA-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DKC-K Winter Semester 2nd year

DPC-K Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. The main construction elements of underground structures. The basic design elements for separate types of underground structures. 2. Classification of surroundings for underground structures, classification systems. 3. State of stress of rocky massive round of tunnel excavation, arch theory, load of lining by the part of primary stress. 4. Tunnel systems for large profiles - New Austrian Tunnel Method. 5. Tunnel systems for large profiles – Adeco –rs method. 6. Tunnel Sequential Machines(TSM) and Tunnel Boring Machines(TBM) Shield tunnelling by open and closed shields, special shields. 7. Material models – Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek-Brown model. 8. Material models – Hoek-Brown model (contin.), Jointed rock model. 9. Material model - Jointed rock model (contin.). 10. The design of primary lining. 11. Material model – Shotcerete. 12. Modelling of rock bolts and anchors. 13. Excavation and projecting of shafts.