Field evaluation of advanced methods of geotechnical instrumentation for transit tunneling : final report /

Performed by Bechtel Civil and Minerals, Inc. and Haley & Aldrich, Inc. under contract to the Transportation Systems Center.

Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Giving the details of practical tunnel work; the constituents and properties of modern explosive compounds; the principles of blasting; the history of ... machine rock-drilling; and detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... with a history of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time.

Plates I and II on one sheet.

Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Also, descriptions of the European and American systems, with tables giving the dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time.

Mode of access: Internet.

Investigation of alternative aqueduct systems to serve southern California : Feather River and delta diversion projects : Appendix C, procedure for estimating costs of tunnel construction.

Mode of access: Internet.

Underground excavation : an annotated bibliography : final report /

Technical report documentation page title: Bibliography of tunneling literature.

Modern tunnel practice, illustrated by examples taken from actual recent work in the United States and in foreign countries.

Appendix: Glossary of some of the more unusual terms used in tunneling: p. 301-307.

Evaluation of aerial remote sensing techniques for defining critical geologic features pertinent to tunnel location and design /

Mode of access: Internet.