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Geotechnical Design Parameters for a Metro Tunnel from Pressuremeter Tests

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Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering ((LNCE,volume 29))

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Being an in situ test, the pressuremeter provides a reliable assessment of soil parameters, eliminating the influence of sample disturbance. The paper outlines the analysis of pressuremeter data to interpret parameters such as undrained shear strength, pre-consolidation pressure, over-consolidation ratio, and in situ horizontal stress. The test was used effectively in conjunction with borehole data to assess the geotechnical parameters for the design of a metro tunnel. Data from two locations along the metro tunnel alignment are presented here.

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  1. Cengrs Geotechnica Pvt. Ltd., A-100 Sector 63, Noida, India

    Ravi Sundaram, Sanjay Gupta, Sorabh Gupta & Bhajan Lal

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  1. Cengrs Geotechnica Pvt. Ltd. , Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ravi Sundaram

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Jagdish Telangrao Shahu

  3. Geotechnical Engineering Division, CSIR Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Vasant Havanagi

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Sundaram, R., Gupta, S., Gupta, S., Lal, B. (2019). Geotechnical Design Parameters for a Metro Tunnel from Pressuremeter Tests. In: Sundaram, R., Shahu, J., Havanagi, V. (eds) Geotechnics for Transportation Infrastructure. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 29. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6713-7_5

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