Tunnelling : management by design / / Alan Muir Wood

• Autore: Muir Wood A. M (Alan Marshall)
• Pubblicazione: Taylor & Francis, 2000; London ; ; New York : , : E & FN Spon, , 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 624.193
• Soggetto topico: Tunneling; Tunnels - Design and construction
• Soggetto non controllato: Tunnelling and Underground Engineering; Mining Construction; ENG; CivilEngineering; SCI-TECH; STM; channel; clay; concrete; extension; jubilee; line; london; project; rock; spray
• Note generali: "This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002"--Title-page verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Notation -- Introduction -- Background to modern tunnelling -- Design: the ubiquitous element -- Planning -- Studies and investigations -- Design of the tunnel project -- Design of construction -- Management -- Hazards, disputes and their resolution --Coda: the Heathrow Tunnel collapse -- References -- Author index -- Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: Tunnelling has become a fragmented process, excessively influenced by lawyers'notions of confrontational contractual bases. This prevents the pooling of skills, essential to the achievement of the promoters' objectives. Tunnelling: Management by Design seeks the reversal of this trend. After a brief historical treatment of selected developments, the concept of design is defined in detail and related to systems and to risk, the central features of this book. A final chapter discusses the failure in 1994 of railway tunnels at Heathrow Airport which well illustrates the expens
• Titolo autorizzato: Tunnelling
• ISBN: 1-135-80949-6; 0-429-20425-6; 1-135-80950-X; 1-280-40513-9; 9786610405138; 0-203-47766-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910418356203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II