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Autore: | Muir Wood A. M (Alan Marshall) |
Titolo: | Tunnelling : management by design / / Alan Muir Wood |
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 |
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