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Túneles, Diseño y Ejecución
- Prácticas de Aula/Semina (4 Hours)
- Prácticas de Laboratorio (6 Hours)
- Clases Expositivas (13 Hours)
‘Tunnels, Design and Construction’ is an optional 3 ECTS credit subject of the Master's Degree in Mining Engineering. It is included in the Mining Exploitation and Prospecting matter of the modul Specific Technologies.
The subject is taugh during the second semester of the second year.
It is recommended to have basic knowledge acquired in the Grade. It is also recommended to have completed previous years’ subjects.
General and basic competencies
General and basic competencies or skills developed by students in this module are the following: CB6, CB7, CB8, CB9, CB10, CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15 and CG18.
CB6: To have and to understand the necessary knowledge to be original for developing and applying ideas usually in a researching context.
CB7: Students must be able to apply their acquired knowledge as well as to apply their capability to solve problems in new and unknown contexts in a wider (or multidisciplinary) frame related to their study area.
CB8: Students must be able to synthetize knowledge as well as to face the difficulties of formulating statements based on limited or incomplete information, including a reflexion about ethics and social responsibilities related to the application of knowledge and these statements.
CB9: Students must be able to communicate in a clear and non-vague way their conclusions (as well as knowledge and reasons which support them) both to specialised and general public.
CB10: Students must have learning capacities or skills which allow them to continue studying, especially in an autonomous way under their own guidelines.
CG1: To have scientific, technical and methodologic capabilities to acquire a continuous knowledge recycling as well as to fulfil professional functions in their activity fields, such as consulting, analysis, design, calculations, project execution, planning, management, maintenance, preservation, and exploitation.
CG2: Students have to understand multiple technical, legal and/or ownership related requirements, which will found in a project for an installation or plant. They have to take capability to stablish different allowable alternatives, to choice the optimum or best one, and to adequately implement it, foreseeing problems derived from its development and using more adequate methods and technologies, both traditional and innovating ones, in order to get the highest efficiency and to make possible a sustainable and environment-friendly society progress.
CG4: Knowledge about Mining Engineer profession and activities which can be developed in the framework of this profession.
CG15: Capability to project and to carry out or construct tunnels, underground works and underground spaces.
CG18: To have knowledge on scientific and technological topics related to mathematical, analytical and numerical methods in Engineering, fluids mechanics, continua media mechanics, structure calculations, carbon chemistry and petrol chemistry.
Transversal competencies
CT1 – Capability to analyse and to synthesize
CT2 – Capability for organization and planning
CT3 – Oral and written communication in tongue language
CT4 – Knowledge of foreign language at a technical level
CT5 – Computing knowledge related to the study area
CT6 – Capability for information management
CT7 – Capability to solve complex problems
CT8 – Decision making
CT9 – Capability for teamworking
CT10 – Leading multidisciplinary work teams
CT11 – Capability to stablish interpersonal relationships and for communication
CT12 – Criticist reasoning and capability to analyse data and use complex concepts
CT13 - Corporate Social Responsibility. Ethical commitment
CT14 – Autonomous learning and capability to update knowledge
CT15 – Adaptation to new and diverse international scenarios
CT16 – Motivation for the quality and capability to manage and develop rules and guides of good practices
CT17 – Awareness about Environment, Social and Sustainability related topics
CT18 – Motivation for occupational health and safety
CT19 – Managerial skills
CT20 – Skills to use new acommunication and information technologies and to look for new knowledge
CT21 – Capability to relate different knowledge and to develop new skills to carry oyut experimental research
CT22 - Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
CT23 – Creativity and innovation
CT24 – Capability to manage optimally the working and to organize the available resources
Specific competencies
Specific competences, or skills, developed by students in this module are the following: CE1, CE2 and CE7.
CE1: capability to study and solve advanced mathematical problems in Engineering, from problem formulation to solution proposal and implementation of a computer program. Specifically, capability to stablish, develop and/or apply advanced analytical and numerical methods, capability to plan and manage a project, and capability to understand and analyse the results in the context of Mining Engineering.
CE2: to have knowledge on scientific and technological topics related to fluids mechanics, continua media mechanics, structure calculations, geotechnics, carbon chemistry and petrol chemistry.
CE7: Capability to carry out studies on territory and underground space management, including tunnels and other underground structures construction.
Learning results
Competencies developed leads to the following learning results:
RA33.01: To know the different mechanised excavation methods and to know how to estimate the cutting tools wearing (or consumption), based on competencies CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24
RA33.02: to evaluate problems derived from the over-break/overcut in tunnels and to propose steps or control measures, based on competencies CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA33.03: to know specific aspects related to support design under complex conditions based on competencies CB6, CB7, CB8, CB9, CB10, CG1, CG2, CG4 CG15, CG18, CE1, CE2, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA33.04: to use ventilation methods in order to design large tunnels ventilation system, based on competencies CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15, CG18, CE1, CE2, CE7, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA33.05: to know how to design dewatering and illumination systems and other auxiliary services, based on competencies CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15, CG18, CE1, CE2, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA33.06: to know how to evaluate and how to compensate the negative effects related to tunnels excavation, based on competencies CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15, CG18, CE1, CE2, CE17, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA33.07: to know specific technologies and different types of micro-tunnelling and pipe jacking, based on competencies CG1, CG2, CG4, CG15, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
LESSON 1.- Mechanized excavation. Cutting tools wearing/consuption
• Types of mechanical excavation
• Cutting tools wearing.
• Consumption of cutting tools.
LESSON 2.- Over-break in tunnels. Related problems and measures of control /improvement
• Drilling and blasting method
• Over-break due to blasting and related problems
• Anlaysis of the over-break and measures of improvement
LESSON 3.- Tunnels support under difficult conditions (sqeezing, rockburst…etc.)
• Tunnel support
• Conditions for squeezing and rockburst occurrence
• Problems and measures of improvement
LESSON 4.- Large tunnels ventilation. Air flow rate regulation.
• Tunnel ventilation
• Laws of air flow rate regulation
• Advantages of air flow rate regultaion
LESSON 5.- Dewatering, ilumination and other auxiliary services
• Main auxiliary services
• Water supply
• Drainage
LESSON 6.- Negative effects related to tunnels excavation in urban areas and natural environments
• Environmental impact of tunnels
• Surface settlement (subsidence) in urban areas
• Airblast wave in natural enviroenments
LESSON 7.- Microtunnelling and pipe jacking
• Main techniques
• Microtunnelling
• Pipe jacking
Laboratory/computer classroom practices contents are the following:
PL1: Video/ laboratory on cutting tools.
PL2: Analysis of the over-excavation produced by blasting (1 hour)
PL3: Tunnel support: possibility of squeezing and rockburst occurrence (1 hour)
PL4: Air flow rate regulation in large tunnels (1 hour)
PL5: Videos on microtunnelling. Case example
Some laboratory/computer classroom practices could be changed into visits or filed/site practical sessions.
SESSIONS | Hours | % | Total Hours | |
In-class activities | Lectures | 13 | 17.3 | 23 |
Classroom practices and seminars | 4 | 5.3 | ||
Laboratory practices, visits or field/site practical sessions, sessions in computers classroom | 6 | 8.0 | ||
Out-of-class activities | Individual work | 26 | 34.7 | 52 |
Team work | 26 | 34.7 | ||
Total | 75 | 100 | 75 |
In-class activities | Out-of-class activities | |||||||||
Topics | Total (hours) | Lectures | Clasroom practices and seminars | Laboratory practices, , visits or field/site sessions, sessions in computers classroom | Tutorial sessions (in group) | Exmaminations and evaluation sessions | Total | Individual work | Team work | Total |
1.- Mechanized excavation. Cutting tools wearing/consuption | 14 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||
2.- Overbreak/over-boring in tunnels. Related problems and control steps/measures | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
3.- Tunnels support under difficult conditions (sqeezing, rockburst…etc.) | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 12 | ||
4.- Large tunnels ventilation. Air flow rate regulation. | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 12 | ||
5.- Dewatering, ilumination and other auxiliary services | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
6.- Negative effects related to tunnels excavation in urban areas and natural environment | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
7.- Microtunnelling and pipe jacking | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
Total | 75 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 52 |
Visits and field/site practical sessions will be carried out depending on timetable and budget.
Evaluation / assesment | Weight (%) |
Final exam (theory and practice) | 60% |
Exercises, personal homework, and oral presentations | 20% |
Reports/exams on laboratory practices, visits or out-of-school sessions and sessions in computers classroom | 20% |
Extraordinary Examination will consist in an exam (theory and/or practice). Students who have not completed their laboratory classes, visits or field/site practical sessions, or sessions in computers classroom have to develop compensatory personal work.
Students following ‘no attendance’ system have to pass a final exam on theoretical and practical lessons explained in class, and practices carried out in laboratory and/or in computer classroom. This system could be substituted by any other evaluation system, specific for each student, according to the paragraph 7 of the student evaluation Regulations of the University of Oviedo.
- Documentation and paperwork produced by professors.
- Some resources could be accessible for students via e-campus.
Books
-Manual de túneles y obras subterráneas. Tomos 1 y 2. Entorno Gráfico.
-Ingeotúneles. Tomos 1 a 19. López Jimeno. Entorno Gráfico.
-Manual de perforación y voladura de rocas. Entorno Gráfico.
-Manual de túneles y obras subterráneas. Tomos 1 y 2. Entorno Gráfico.
-Manual de equipos de desescombro en túneles. Entorno Gráfico.
-Manual de excavación de túneles con rozadora. Entorno Gráfico.
-Manual perforación dirigida horizontal. Tecnología horizontal. Entorno Gráfico.
-Ingenieria del terreno. Ingeoter. Tomos 1 a 14. Ed. Entorno Gráfico.
-The handbook of tunnel fire safety. A. Beard and R. Carvel. Ed. Thomas.
-Subsurface Ventilation Engineering. 21 Monografías. McPherson. University of California, Berkeley.
-Microtunnel Construcción. A.A. Balkema. Rotterdam, Holanda.
Web sites:
https://www.herrenknecht.com/en/home.html
http://www.therobbinscompany.com/
https://www.mhi-global.com/products/category/tunnel_excavation_machinery.html
Journals
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/tunnelling-and-underground-space-technology/
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-rock-mechanics-and-mining-sciences/
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-rock-mechanics-and-geotechnical-engineering/