Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

A 21-ft, 8-in dia earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine has launched in Seattle to begin creation of a 2.7-mile-long tunnel that will store combined sewer overflow as part of the city's consent ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...