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Table 2.1.2 Points of notice, problems and essential information to be collected in design and
construction
Notable conditions Problematic phenomenon Essential information to acquire
Subsidence of the surface, Strength and deformation
Cases where the tunnel
displacement and characteristics, permeability,
is bored through urban
deformation of adjacent location condition, location of
area (8.3, Part 3 and Part
structures, lowering of adjacent structures
8)
groundwater level
Subsidence of surface, Topography conditions including
Shallow overburden (8.3, cave-in, unsymmetrical earth landslide, strength and deformation
Special Part 3) pressure characteristics, permeability,
locations location condition
High pressure groundwater Strength and deformation
Especially deep
inflow, increase of earth characteristics, permeability, water
overburden (8.3, Part 3)
pressure pressure, groundwater level
Huge amount of groundwater Strength and deformation
Cases where the tunnel is
inflow characteristics, amount of
bored under the water
groundwater inflow, permeability,
bottom (8.3, Part 3)
topography of bottom
Unsymmetrical earth Strength and deformation
pressure, deformation to characteristics, condition and
Neighboring construction (8.4, Part 3) adjacent structures, cracks location of adjacent structures
and deformation of the
lining and invert
Geometries Bifurcation points, Collapse of the face, Strength and deformation
and enlargements and deformation characteristics
dimensions especially large
of particular cross-section (8.5, Part
shapes 3)
External Cracks and deformation of the Overburden, topography and
forces Earth pressure, water lining and invert geography conditions, strength and
working pressure and earthquake deformation characteristics,
after (8.6, Part 3) groundwater level, conditions of
completion active faults
Landslide, slope failure, Topography conditions including
unsymmetrical earth landslide, strength and
Portal (7, Part 3)
pressure, subsidence of deformation characteristics
surface and cave-in
Groundwater inflow, inflow Amount of groundwater inflow,
Shaft and inclined shaft (Part 11) of surface water and soils permeability, strength and
from the portal deformation characteristics