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TBM Living List of Links

Useful (living) list of Links: TBM_Links
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Companies:

Herrenknecht: http://www.herrenknecht.com/ ; http://www.seminariodetuneles.com/cd/charlas/HERRENKNECHT_AG.pdf
Kawasaki Heavy Industries: http://www.khi.co.jp/english/product/infra/earth/
Robbins: http://www.robbinstbm.com/our-products/tunnel-boring-machines/earth-pressure-balance/
Lovat: http://www.lovat.com/MS/MS1/index.php . The company was bought by Caterpillar (see http://tbm.cat.com/ ) in 2008 and now Caterpillar is closing it by mid-April 2014. For more information click on "Caterpillar Selling TBM Business". Caterpillar is selling the business because it "no longer represents a strategic growth opportunity." News of the shutdown came as a shock to Richard Lovat, who founded the company in 1972 after moving to Canada from Italy. He and his son Rick ran the firm until selling it to Caterpillar for $49 million in 2008. The latest is that Caterpillar sells the TBM business to a Chinese Partner, Liaoning Censcience Industry Co, Ltd (LNSS).
AkerWirth: http://www.wirth-erkelenz.de/index.php?id=2&L=0
SELI technologie: http://www.selitecnologie.com/macchinari.php?L=uk&prod=1
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.: http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/products/category/tunnel_excavation_machinery.html
NFM Technologies: http://www.nfm-technologies.com/
NHI Shenyang Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.: http://www.china-sz.com/ (In 2007, Northern Heavy Industries Group Co., Ltd. (NHI), a Chinese state-owned corporation, “acquired a controlling stake of 70 percent of France's NFM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany's Wirth Group”)
CSM BESSAC: http://www.csmbessac.com/uk/index.html
Hitachi Zosen Corporation: http://www.hitachizosen.co.jp/english/product/steel/

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Projects:

Toronto subway extension. In 2008, the TTC began design and construction for six new subway stations, linking the subway to growing York University and beyond. Snaking northwest, this line brings the subway for the first time outside Toronto’s boundary into the 905. The $2.6-billion project involves hundreds of workers. The TTC vows to open the extension at the end of 2015. For more information see http://news.nationalpost.com/news/graphics/graphic-how-to-build-a-subway-line . Also see http://news.nationalpost.com/toronto/ttc-wants-to-sell-51-7-million-tunnel-boring-machines-to-chinese-company-for-just-9-2-million .
M30 Madrid Calle 30 Project: http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/projects/m30_madrid/
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Switzerland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel; http://data.nce.co.uk/majorprojects/Update.aspx?ProjectInt=5650
Dead sea Power Project: http://deadseapower.com/project_review/
Yangtze River Tunnels (Chiangijang Under_River Tunnel Project), China: http://www.roadtraffic-technology.com/projects/yangstetunnel/
Barcelona's metro line 9: http://www.barcelona-metropolitan.com/articles/the-big-dig-barcelonas-metro-line-9/index.html
Yacambu-Quibor Tunnel in Venezuela (completed after 32 years):

http://www.springerlink.com/content/3l38317036125476/

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTWAT/Resources/4602122-1210186345144/GWMATE_English_CP_07.pdf

http://www.omikronkappa.gr/22-Stuff/04-Erga/04-01-Ektelesmena/04-01-09en-YDRAYLIKA.pdf
Crossing beneath the Yangtze River in Shanghai:
http://www.herrenknecht.com/fileadmin/redaktion/PDF_Downloads/S-317_S-318_Shanghai_Folder_GB_09-03-11.pdf
http://www.herrenknecht.cn/fileadmin/redaktion/PDF_Downloads/07-05-02_S-317_S-318_Shanghai_E.pdf
http://www.tunnelsonline.info/hybrid.asp?typeCode=116&pubCode=6&navcode=781
Airport Link Tunnel Project in Brisbane. Australia: http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/australia%E2%80%99s-two-largest-ever-tbms-now-in-brisbane/

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Journals:

TBM: Tunnel Business: http://www.tunnelingonline.com/
World-Tunnelling: http://www.world-tunnelling.com/
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/799/description#description
Tunnels & Tunnelling International: http://www.tunnelsonline.info/index.asp?navcode=484
Australasian Tunnelling Society: http://www.ats.org.au/
Tunnelling Association of Canada: http://www.tunnelcanada.ca/
Tunnelling Journal: http://tunnellingjournal.com/
Mining Magazine: http://www.miningmagazine.com/
The Underground Construction Association of SME: http://uca.smenet.org/
International Tunnelling and Underground Association: http://ita-aites.org/
Mining & Construction Online: http://www.miningandconstruction.com/EN/Home/tabid/38/Default.aspx
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/256/description
International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1096-9853
TunnelTalk: http://www.tunneltalk.com/

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Books:

TBM Tunnelling in Joined and Faulted Rock: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1096-9853
Tunnelling in Weak Rocks: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0080449875/ref=nosim?tag=dnssesecurthe-20&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=0080449875&creative=373489&camp=211189
Engineering Rock Mass Classification: http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Rock-Mass-Classifications-Geologists/dp/0471601721/ref=sip_rech_dp_3
Foundations of Engineering Geology: http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Engineering-Geology-Tony-Waltham/dp/0415254507/ref=sip_rech_dp_5
Mechanized Tunnelling in Urban Areas: http://www.amazon.com/Mechanized-Tunnelling-Urban-Vittorio-Guglielmetti/dp/0415420105/ref=pd_cp_b_1_img
Tunnelling and Tunnel Mechanics: http://www.amazon.com/Tunnelling-Tunnel-Mechanics-Rational-Approach/dp/3540251960/ref=pd_cp_b_2_img
Design and Construction of Tunnels: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Construction-Tunnels-Controlled-Deformations/dp/3540738746/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines (Martin Herrenknecht): http://www.amazon.com/Hardrock-Tunnel-Boring-Machines-Bernhard/dp/3433016763/ref=pd_sim_b_3#_
Introduction to Tunnel Construction: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Tunnel-Construction-Applied-Geotechnics/dp/0415468426/ref=pd_sim_b_5
Support of Underground Excavations in Hard Rock: http://www.amazon.com/Support-Underground-Excavations-Hard-Rock/dp/9054101873/ref=pd_sim_b_7
Sprayed Concrete Lined Tunnels: http://www.amazon.com/Sprayed-Concrete-Tunnels-Applied-Geotechnics/dp/0415368642/ref=pd_sim_b_8
Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering: http://www.amazon.com/Assessment-Geotechnical-Engineering-Gordon-Fenton/dp/0470178205/ref=pd_sim_b_13

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Pictures & Videos:

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Others:

Training: http://www.itacet.org/
http://www.ita-aites.org/index.php?id=99
http://www.ita-aites.org/index.php?id=100
Selected key lectures: http://www.ita-aites.org/index.php?id=24&L=0

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