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Springer, Boston, MA
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Authors: Harry Sutcliffe
Publish Date: 1996
Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 203-219
Abstract
Tunnel boring machines TBMs are used to excavate tunnels in virtually all types of ground and under widely different physical conditions This chapter covers hard and soft rock TBMs with fullface rotating heads and their development from soft ground shields Roadheaders boom headers are also discussed here because of their growing role in the softer rock tunnels and caverns The innovative Ranging Mobile Miner which combines some of the advantages of the roadheader and the TBM and can be used in harder rocks is also covered
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