Engineering Challenges for Sustainable Underground Use

1. Optimizing the Position of Twin Tunnels for Reduction of Surface Ground Movements
Mehdi Mokhberi, Seyed Ali Farjam

2. Research on the Opportunity of Construction Method Conversion in Upper-Soft and Lower-Hard Stratum Based on Pressure Arch Theory
Wei Wang, Hengwen Zhang, Jiasheng Bian

3. Computational and Numerical Considerations of Segmental Lining Design
Mostafa Zaki Abd Elrehim, Mostafa Asaad

4. Lining Induced Stresses for Mechanized Tunneling Along Curved Alignment
Ahmed Marwan, Abdullah Alsahly, Mostafa Z. Abd Elrehim, Günther Meschke

5. Tunnel Boring Machine Advance Ground Investigation in Rockburst-Prone Ground Conditions on Neelum Jhelum Project
Irfan Ullah, Gary Peach, Muhammad Nadeem

6. Improving the Existing Roadway Tunnels Capacity by Adding New Tunnels – A Structural Approach
Mostafa Zaki AbdElrehim, Mohamed A. Eid, Osama Moshref

7. Estimation of Settlement and Vibration on the Surface Due to the Construction of East-West Metro Tunnels in Kolkata, India
Aniruddha Sengupta, Raj Banerjee, Srijit Bandyopadhyay

8. Effect of Using TBM Tunneling in Granular Soils on Performance of an Existing Raft Foundation
Ahmed M. El Mouchi, Asmaa M. Hassan, Mohamed I. Amer

9. Three Dimensional Analysis of Diaphragm Walls Supported by Passive Berms
Muhammad M. El-Sherbiny, Rami M. El-Sherbiny, Hussein H. El-Mamlouk

10. Behaviour of Urban Metro Twin Tunnels Under Earthquake Loads
R. B. Jishnu, Ramanathan Ayothiraman

11. Abu Hamour Tunnel Phase I the First TBM Tunnel in Qatar: The Art of Tunneling in a New World
J. B. Stypulkowski, F. G. Bernardeau

12. Analysis of Construction Scheme for Neighborhood Metro Tunnels with Two Different Inner Sections
Xiangxing Kong

13. Reducing the Tunnelling Effect on Adjacent Pile Foundations
Ahmed N. EL-Attar

14. Numerical Modeling by Plaxis Software (3D), the Effect of Digging a Tunnel on the Behavior of the Ground and Overlying Structures
Djamel Eddine Boudjellal, Abdellah Hafsaoui, Talhi Korichi

15. Mitigating Foundation Settlement Induced by Tunnel Construction
Mona Badr El-Din Anwar

16. The Monitoring of Segments Dislocation Deformation in Shield Tunnel Based on BOFDA
Shi Bin, Wang Xing

17. Erratum to: Mitigating Foundation Settlement Induced by Tunnel Construction
Mona Badr El-Din Anwar

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Building Construction and Design, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Engineering Design