Tunnelling: Management by Design

by Alan Muir Wood

Overview

Tunnelling has become a fragmented process, excessively influenced by lawyers'notions of confrontational contractual bases. This prevents the pooling of skills, essential to the achievement of the promoters' objectives. Tunnelling: Management by Design seeks the reversal of this trend. After a brief historical treatment of selected developments, th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135809492
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	03/09/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
Sales rank:	515,105
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alan Muir Wood

Table of Contents

Preface. Notation. Introduction. Background to modern tunnelling. Design - the ubiquitous element. Planning. Studies and investigations. Design of the tunnel project. Design of construction. Management. Hazards, disputes and their resolution. Coda - the Heathrow Tunnel collapse. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Whether you read it from cover to cover or just to dip into it, it is well worth the effort."
—Concrete March 2001

"Alan Muir Wood is a legend in the tunnelling community and this book, Tunnelling - Management by Design, typifies his contribution to tunnelling."
—NZ Geomechanics News June 2001

"This book by Alan Muir Wood is an excellent reference and should be in the personal library of every engineer and manager involved in tunneling. It is very readable and the no holds barred approach adopted by the author in discussing the important issues is authoritative and refreshing. It comprehensively covers the technical aspects and philosophies of tunnelling and many readers will find it has applications to other major civil engineering projects."
—NZ Geomechanics News, June 2001

"We know of no other textbook on tunnelling with a comparably large breadth of treatment..."
—Tunnel, 4/2001

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