Tunnelling and Tunnel Mechanics

Professor Dimitrios Kolymbas studierte Bauingenieurwesen an der Universität Karlsruhe, wo er am Institut für Boden- und Felsmechanik promovierte und sich habilitierte. Seit 1994 ist er Professor für Geotechnik und Tunnelbau an der Universität Innsbruck.

Design.- Installations in tunnels.- Investigation and description of the ground.- Heading.- Support.- Grouting and freezing.- The New Austrian Tunnelling Method.- Management of groundwater.- Application of compressed air.- Subaqueous tunnels.- Shafts.- Safety during construction.- Tunnelling Mechanics.- Behaviour of soil and rock.- Stress and deformation fields around a deep circular tunnel.- Supporting action of anchors/bolts.- Some approximate solutions for shallow tunnels.- Stability of the excavation face.- Earthquake effects on tunnels.- Settlement of the surface.- Stability problems in tunnelling.- Monitoring.- Numerical analysis of tunnels.

From the reviews:

"First, it provides a comprehensive coverage of the entire spectrum of tunneling in a single volume. ... Second, this new book is one of the few tunneling books in English by authors from a G-A-Ch country (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). The G-A-CH countries are known to have a rich concentration of tunnel engineers, consultants, contractors and machine manufacturers, and a long tradition in tunneling practice and research. ... This book is worth a thorough reading from cover to cover ... ." (W. Wu, Acta Geotechnica, April, 2006)