沉管隧道介绍英文.pptVIP

Immersed Tunnels Typically, an immersed tunnel is made by sinking precast concrete boxes into a dredged channel and joining them up under water. Tunnel sections in convenient lengths, usually 90 to 150 meters, are placed into a pre-dredged trench, joined, connected and protected by backfilling the excavation. The sections may be fabricated in shipyards, in dry docks, or in temporary construction basin serving as dry docks. Immersed tunnels are, more advantegous as a subaquous solution in soft soils increasingly used alternative to traditionally used shield tunnelling, without having the r