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Product Description: Rock mass classification methods are commonly used at the preliminary design stages of a construction project when there is very little information. It forms the bases for design and estimation of the required amount and type of rock support and groundwater control measures...read more
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9780123858788, titled "Engineering Rock Mass Classification: Tunnelling, Foundations, and Landslides" | Butterworth-Heinemann, July 5, 2011, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Rock mass classification methods are commonly used at the preliminary design stages of a construction project when there is very little information.

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9780727733405 | Thomas Telford Services Ltd, May 31, 2005, cover price $50.00

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9780727741035 | Thomas Telford Services Ltd, June 15, 2010, cover price $98.00

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Product Description: Tunnelling provides a robust solution to a variety of engineering challenges. It is a complex process, which requires a firm understanding of the ground conditions as well as structural issues. This book covers the whole range of areas that you need to know in order to embark upon a career in tunnelling...read more
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9780415468411 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, July 9, 2010), cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Tunnelling provides a robust solution to a variety of engineering challenges.

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9780415468428 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, July 8, 2010), cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Tunnelling provides a robust solution to a variety of engineering challenges.

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Product Description: This work illustrates how the Analysis of Controlled Deformation in Rocks and Soils (ADECO-RS) is used in the design and the construction of tunnels. This is a very new and effective way of tunnel construction. The ADECO-RS approach makes a clear distinction between the design and the construction stages and allows reliable forecasts of construction times and costs to be made...read more
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9783540738749 | Springer Verlag, April 7, 2008, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: This work illustrates how the Analysis of Controlled Deformation in Rocks and Soils (ADECO-RS) is used in the design and the construction of tunnels.

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Product Description: Simple text and photographs present the digging of a tunnel, including information on the workers and equipment needed.
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9781429612340 | Pebble Plus, January 1, 2008, cover price $24.65 | About this edition: Simple text and photographs present the digging of a tunnel, including information on the workers and equipment needed.

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Product Description: Internationally, the mechanized excavation of tunnels has intensified in the last two decades, as the number of tunnels being constructed for subways and railway underpasses increases. The subject of mechanized tunnelling in urban areas has not previously received the attention that it deserves, despite there being specific hazards associated with the construction of tunnels in metropolitan areas, including poor ground conditions, water tables higher than the level of tunnels, and subsidence leading to damage to the existing structures on the surface...read more
By Vittorio Guglielmetti (editor), Ashraf Mahtab (editor) and Shulin Xu (editor)
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9780415420105 | Taylor & Francis, November 28, 2007, cover price $179.95 | About this edition: Internationally, the mechanized excavation of tunnels has intensified in the last two decades, as the number of tunnels being constructed for subways and railway underpasses increases.

Miscellaneous:

9780203938515 | Taylor & Francis, January 1, 2007, cover price $174.95

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Product Description: This book includes recommendations prepared by members of the French Society for Trenchless Technology (FSTT), based on their recent national multi-year project. Comprehensive guidelines, techniques and theories in the areas of both microtunneling and horizontal drilling are given, encompassing the fields of application for each method, what investigations should be undertaken, which machines and equipment should be used, how the work should be managed and potential problems that may arise...read more
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9781905209002 | Iste/Hermes Science Pub, February 27, 2006, cover price $205.00 | About this edition: This book includes recommendations prepared by members of the French Society for Trenchless Technology (FSTT), based on their recent national multi-year project.

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Describes how a group of American special forces soldiers known as 'tunnel rats' wages a harrowing campaign against Viet Cong guierrillas, venturing deep inside the more than two hundred miles of secret tunnel networks that existed around Saigon and engaging the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Reprint.
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9780891418696 | Presidio Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Describes how a group of American special forces soldiers known as 'tunnel rats' wages a harrowing campaign against Viet Cong guierrillas, venturing deep inside the more than two hundred miles of secret tunnel networks that existed around Saigon and engaging the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

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Product Description: This book covers not only practical aspects but also the underlying theoretical approaches. It also covers the fundamentals of rock mechanics. The book addresses not only students but also professionals who are interested to understand the underlying principles and methods and – possibly – to further develop them...read more
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9783540251965 | Springer Verlag, October 12, 2005, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: This book covers not only practical aspects but also the underlying theoretical approaches.

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Contents include: What is digging? How do things dig? Can small animals dig? Can big animals dig? Can fish dig? Can things dig with their mouths? Can things dig with their feet? Can machines dig? Can people dig?
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9781403443762 | Not Applicable, October 1, 2003, cover price $6.49 | About this edition: Contents include: What is digging?

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9781403443694 | Heinemann/Raintree, October 1, 2003, cover price $21.36

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Product Description: Applies detailed knowledge toward the design and construction of underground civil works projects. Develops critical skills for managing risk and designing reliable gas control measures within project time and cost constraints. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780824704834 | CRC Pr I Llc, February 1, 2001, cover price $239.95 | About this edition: Applies detailed knowledge toward the design and construction of underground civil works projects.

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Product Description: A review of modern blasting techniques used in tunnelling, chamber excavations and lake-tap blasting. The scope of this book includes geological implications, cut design and smooth blasting techniques in addition to chamber blasting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789058093110 | Taylor & Francis, October 1, 2000, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: A review of modern blasting techniques used in tunnelling, chamber excavations and lake-tap blasting.

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Product Description: This practical guide describes the stage-by-stage development of a method for predicting the penetration rate (PR) and the advance rate (AR) for tunnel boring machines based on an expanded version of the Q-value, QTBM. The author analyzes 145 TBM tunnels that total 1,000km in length...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9789058093417 | Taylor & Francis, August 1, 2000, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This practical guide describes the stage-by-stage development of a method for predicting the penetration rate (PR) and the advance rate (AR) for tunnel boring machines based on an expanded version of the Q-value, QTBM.

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Product Description: This book covers all the main aspects of tunnelling: planning; studies which contribute to the viability of a tunnel project; the technical aspects of design; the management of construction; overall project management; a review of recent tunnel failures; and issues regarding dispute resolution and prevention...read more
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9780419232001 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 2000, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This book covers all the main aspects of tunnelling: planning; studies which contribute to the viability of a tunnel project; the technical aspects of design; the management of construction; overall project management; a review of recent tunnel failures; and issues regarding dispute resolution and prevention.

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Product Description: A review of modern blasting techniques used in tunnelling, chamber excavations and lake-tap blasting. The scope of this book includes geological implications, cut design and smooth blasting techniques in addition to chamber blasting...read more
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9789058093127 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, January 1, 2000), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: A review of modern blasting techniques used in tunnelling, chamber excavations and lake-tap blasting.

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Recounts the discovery of a network of tunnels around Saigon and the resulting underground fighting between Viet Cong guerrillas and American special forces for control of the tunnels
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9780394525761 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1985, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Explains how the North Vietnamese used underground tunnels in conjunction with other guerrilla warfare tactics against American forces and looks at the specially trained U.

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9780425089514 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Recounts the discovery of a network of tunnels around Saigon and the resulting underground fighting between Viet Cong guerrillas and American special forces for control of the tunnels

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Product Description: The Tunnel Engineering Handbook, Second Edition provides, in a single convenient volume, comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in the design, construction, and rehabilitation of tunnels. It brings together essential information on all the principal classifications of tunnels, including soft ground, hard rock, immersed tube and cut-and-cover, with comparisons of their relative advantages and suitability...read more
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9780412992919 | 2 sub edition (Chapman & Hall, December 1, 1995), cover price $169.00 | About this edition: The Tunnel Engineering Handbook, Second Edition provides, in a single convenient volume, comprehensive coverage of the state of the art in the design, construction, and rehabilitation of tunnels.

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Product Description: A comprehensive outline of state-of-the-art tunnel design and construction in all their ramifications is presented to the engineer, constructor and student in this handbook. The material ranges over the entire spectrum of engineering, including geology; civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical disciplines; plus a measure of ecological and environmental considerations...read more
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9780894646553 | Reprint edition (Krieger Pub Co, November 1, 1991), cover price $154.50 | About this edition: A comprehensive outline of state-of-the-art tunnel design and construction in all their ramifications is presented to the engineer, constructor and student in this handbook.
9780442281274 | Krieger Pub Co, April 1, 1981, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive outline of state-of-the-art tunnel design and construction in all their ramifications is presented to the engineer, constructor and student in this handbook.

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By James C. Thomson (contributor)
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9780751401028 | CRC Pr I Llc, November 1, 1993, cover price $330.00 | About this edition: No description available

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9780415515474 | Spon Pr, December 9, 2011, cover price $42.95

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Product Description: The input of geomechanics principles to underground construction in rock relates to the preliminary and final designs and to monitoring for design modifications. This monograph provides a comprehensive description of the methodology for rock mass characterization...read more
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9780444883087 | Elsevier Science Ltd, October 1, 1992, cover price $221.00 | About this edition: The input of geomechanics principles to underground construction in rock relates to the preliminary and final designs and to monitoring for design modifications.

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9780860084822 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $80.00

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Product Description: Designed as a fundamental source of information on the installation and renewal of non-man-size supply and sewage lines by the trenchless construction method, this book describes non-steerable and steerable microtunnelling systems, their ranges of application and relevant operational experience...read more
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9783433012017 | Vch Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh, December 1, 1989, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Designed as a fundamental source of information on the installation and renewal of non-man-size supply and sewage lines by the trenchless construction method, this book describes non-steerable and steerable microtunnelling systems, their ranges of application and relevant operational experience.

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9780412009112 | Chapman & Hall, August 1, 1986, cover price $75.00

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Product Description: Lateritisation processes - Proceedings of the international seminar, Trivandrum, India, 11-14 December 1979
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9789061912019 | Taylor & Francis, March 1, 1981, cover price $179.95 | About this edition: Lateritisation processes - Proceedings of the international seminar, Trivandrum, India, 11-14 December 1979

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