UNDERGROUND

TUNNELING
 PRESENTERS
IQRA BATOOL 2019-CIV-04
IFRA MARRIYAM 2019-CIV-05
AKMAL SHAHZAD 2019-CIV-18
SHAHOON IQBAL 2019-CIV-20
 SUBMERGED
FLOATING
HISTORY
OF
TUNNEL
TUNNELS
WHY
TUNNELS
NOT
BRIDGES
INTRODUCTION
 A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through
1 surrounding soil, earth or rock

Introduction
Used for carrying freights and passengers, water, sewage, etc
2

Avoid disturbing or interfering with surface life and traffic

during construction
3
Tunnel Through Mountain Tunnel Under Sea
 History Of Tunnels

Pre- First vehicular tunnel in

the United States
historic 35 million drivers pass
through the tunnel each
Humans year
To make cave
Holland
home larger Tunnel
World
Longest
Babylonians Tunnel
For irrigation Lærdal - Aurland,
purpose. Norway
To transport water
under ground 24,510 m (15.2 mi)
through deserts. Year 2000
HOLLAND NORWAY
TUNNEL TUNNEL
 SUBMERGED FLOATING TUNNEL

 When the bed is too rocky , too deep or too

undulating submerged floating tunnels are
used.
 Submerged floating Tunnel is a tube like
structure made of Steel and Concrete
utilizing the law of buoyancy.
 Supported on columns or held in place by
tethers attached to the sea floor or by
pontoons floating on the surface.
 RAPID
TRANSPORTA
TION

WHY WE
REDUCE
STEEP
NEED GRADIENT
S
TUNNEL
S PROTECTI
VE IN
WARS
 BACKGROUND
• Channel rocky shores and stormy

CHANNEL TUNNEL
weather condition
• 33 km gap
• Proposal captured by European
imagination

DESIGN WORK
• Urgent obstacles
• Most expensive infra-
structure
• Fault line problem
EXCEUTION

• Ensuring the coordinates

• Two and half years of tunneling
CHANNEL TUNNEL – FRANCE ENGLAND
TUNNEL
3D NETWORK OF TUNNELING