Tunnel Engineering
- Tunnel history, Tunnel planning and considerations
- Geotechnical investigations in tunneling design
- Rock classification systems
- RMR and Q systems
- Stress distribution in tunnels
- Effect of geometry on stress distribution
- Effect of major discontinuities on stress distribution
- Support system in tunnel design
- Design of support system
- Wedge and block analysis
- Ground-support interaction analysis
- Use of classification systems in support design
- Analytical and numerical methods for support design
- Stress analysis in shallow tunnel
- Tunnel face stability
- Shotcrete, rockbolts, and wiremesh