Ponnuswamy, S.,

Transportation tunnels / S. Ponnuswamy, Former Additional General Manager, Souther Railway, Chennai, and Guest Faculty, IIT Madras, D. Johnson Victor, Former Professor of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. - Second edition. - 1 online resource (xvii, 356 pages)

A Balkema book--title page.

1. Introduction -- 2. Route selection and preliminary investigations -- 3. Tunnel requirements -- 4. Design of tunnels -- 5. Survey and setting out -- 6. Tunnelling operations -- 7. Drilling, blasting and mucking -- 8. Metro tunnels -- 9. Lining -- 10. Ventilation, lighting and drainage -- 11. Instrumentation in tunnelling -- 12. Inspection and maintenance of tunnels.

9781315375038 9781498785488 9781315330273

10.1201/b21639 doi


Tunnels--Design and construction.

TA805 / .P66 2016

624.193 / P797