By M W Frost, I Jefferson, E Faragher, T E J Roff, P R Fleming
Of all of the facets of civil engineering that contain geotechnical engineers, arguably the most important is that linked to delivery infrastructure. The geotechnical engineering linked to infrastructure covers all features of the occupation, from evaluate, interpretation and administration of power geotechnical difficulties, to the advance and use of cutting-edge building or layout recommendations to optimise worth for cash. All of this paintings is preformed in the altering setting of the politics, criteria, investment and administration of the infrastructure
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7m of cover, required control of a mixed face comprising two distinctly different ground types, together with anti-drag systems to both preserve the integrity of the overlying infrastructure and maintain the box vertical alignment. A composite cellular shield was designed, see Figure 2. The upper section through the very loose, weak silt and sand comprised a sloping faced steel shield with hand mining compartments on two levels. This sat on a vertical face reinforced concrete shield with steel plated cutting edges and wedge faced dividing walls.
When the box has reached its final position, see Figure lc, the box/ground interface is Copyright © ICE Publishing, all rights reserved. Allenby and Ropkins 43 grouted to minimise settlement, the shield, jacking equipment, etc are dismantled, and the portal structures, internal finishings and roadway are constructed, see Figure Id. Control of ground disturbance Surface settlement is an unavoidable consequence of conventional tunnel excavation. It results in a shallow trough formation developing over the tunnel alignment whose magnitude and extent are dependent upon the physical and time dependent properties of the ground, the effectiveness of face support, the speed of erection of the support system and the effectiveness of its primary grouting, and the rate of tunnel advance.
Three boxes were installed two of which were pedestrian subways. The third, probably the most interesting, was a twin cell box carrying an extension to the Docklands Light Railway underneath existing platforms and tracks at a severe Copyright © ICE Publishing, all rights reserved. Allenby and Ropkins 55 skew angle, see Figure 10. 7m of cover to the rail sleepers, and passed under the inner platform foundations and through the outer platform wall foundations. Historically, movements had taken place to the embankment side slopes and platform structure on the jacking pit side.