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

History, nomenclature and terminology in the underground structures. The basic design elements of underground structures. Geotechnical survey for underground structures, influence of technology to their layout. Classification of surroundings for uderground structures. Theory of rock pressures. Tunnel systems and schemes for major profiles, classic systems, ring method. The New Austrian Tunnel Method (NATM), Tunnel Sequential Machines (TSM) and Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), shield tunnelling by open and closed shields, PERFOREX method. Improvement of environmental at driving, silting, rawing-out. Theoretical description of selected material models (Mohr-Coulomb model, Hoek-Brown model, Jointed rock model, Shotcrete model) used in mathematical modeling of underground structures.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vladislav Horák, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Basic principles of geology, engineering geology, soil mechanics, building materials, structural mechanics, elasticity and plasticity theory, foundation engineering, geodesy, building materials, basic principles of railway, overground and water structures.

Basic Literature

KOLYMBAS, Dimitrios. Tunnelling and Tunnel Mechanics. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-25196-5. (en)
BICKEL, John O., KUESEL, Thomas R., a KING, Elwyn H. Tunnel Engineering Handbook. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8053-5 (en)
MUIR WOOD, Alan. Tunnelling. Management by Design. E a FN Spon, London, 2000. ISBN 0-419-23200-I. (en)
HEMPHILL, Gary B. Practical Tunnel Construction. John Wiley a Sons, inc. 2013. ISBN 978-0-470-64197-2. (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/282369

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.