Measured jacking forces during slurry-shield microtunnelling in a boulder clay in Kilcock, Ireland.

Brien G. Curran; Bryan A. McCabe

doi:10.13025/18244

Measured jacking forces during slurry-shield microtunnelling in a boulder clay in Kilcock, Ireland.

Brien G. Curran
, Bryan A. McCabe

Civil Engineering

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Abstract

Although the application of microtunnelling to pipeline construction has grown considerably in Ireland in recent times, there is very little published guidance on the jacking forces that might be expected in Irish ground conditions. In this paper, relevant experience from jacking records for a Sewerage Improvement Scheme project in Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland is presented. Data from almost 0.9km of pipe-jacked tunnels constructed below the water table at depths between 2.4m and 4.4m in largely greenfield conditions are examined. Topics discussed in this paper include the separation of jacking force into friction and face components, lubrication and stoppages.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	15th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 3
Publisher	IOS PRESS
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13025/18244 https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-801-4-1627
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011

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