Featured in ITACET newsletter

June issue of ITACET newsletter has featured the abstract of my paper which was shortlisted by Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS) to be presented at the 8th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference in Kazakhstan (8AYGEC).

ITACET Newsletter - June edition

The title of the paper is "Mid-tunnel underground docking of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) in Singapore". The paper discusses a case study from Singapore in which, TBMs are docked midway in the tunnel to establish a safe working chamber for concluding construction works (including the TBM dismantling, internal concrete lining etc.) without the need for any intermediate TBM retrieval shaft. 

Picture illustrating docking without a retrieval shaft

Reference:
[1] Senthilnath, G.T., 2016. Mid-tunnel underground docking of tunnel boring machines in Singapore, In The 8th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, CRC Press/ Balkema Publishers (accepted, in press)