Process-Oriented Simulation Models for Mechanized Tunneling (C01)

• Subject Area: Applied Mechanics, Statics and Dynamics
• Term: from 2010 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 77309832

In Subproject C1, process-oriented numerical models for mechanized tunneling are developed to predict design and steering parameters and their uncertain spatial and time dependent interactions in the design stage as well as during the construction of tunnels. Real-time simulations based upon these models will enable a fully interactive tunnel track design in Subproject D1 and allows to assist the steering of the tunneling process during construction, taking uncertain geotechnical parameters and several risk and reliability based steering objectives into account, such as the damage risk of existing buildings.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 837: Interaction Modelling in Mechanised Tunnelling
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Heads: Professor Dr.-Ing. Steffen Freitag; Professor Dr. Günther Meschke