TUNNEL BORING MACHINES SOFT GROUND TUNNEL BORING

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A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also
known as a "mole", is a machine Soft ground machines tunnel through
used to excavate tunnels with a hydrated soil and unconsolidated
circular cross section through a sediments, and may be further
variety of soil and rock strata. optimized based on the hydration
and stability of intended ground
HARD ROCK TUNNEL BORING
SLURRY TUNNEL BORING
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Hard rock TBMs are designed for
Slurry TBM is used for tunnel-boring in
boring through solid rock and solid highly permeable unstable terrain, or
SINGLE SHIELD TUNNEL BORING under civilian structures sensitive to
MACHINE EARTH PRESSURE BALANCE
A single shield machine uses pre-fitted TUNNEL BORING MACHINE
The EPB technology is suited for digging
DOUBLE SHIELD TUNNEL BORING tunnels in unstable ground such as clay,
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Double shield machines allow for raster
tunnel excavation as the segments are
fitted in concurrent operation time during
GRIPPER TUNNEL BORING
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Contrary to shielded hard rock TBM, this
tunnel-boring machine therefore does not