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Investigating the Economic Performance of Tunnel Excavation in Iran: 1998–2013

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Nowadays, the world is witnessing the ever increasing need of Tunnel excavation due to their unique features and the kind of human applied plans. This has led to increase in demand of excavating this engineering factor. Tunnel excavation process faces a lot of challenges due to environmental and technological complexities which causes the economic evaluation and investigation of this project to be difficult. It is tried to develop the proposed model with regard to efficiency concept in order to evaluate and investigate the efficiency of relative economic performance of Tunnel excavation projects and turn to its modeling and implementing by data envelopment analysis and Fuzzy DEMATEL techniques. The results in Iran showed that the proposed model can turn to investigation and evaluation of economic efficiency of Tunnel excavation by considering two optimistic (ideal) and pessimistic perspectives such that the Tunnel excavation process of “Karaj water transition” and “Cheshmelangan water transition” among 12 rock Tunnel excavation projects of Iran in the time period of 1998–2013 were respectively introduced as the most efficient and the most inefficient rock Tunnel excavation projects.

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  1. Department of Geology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

    Vahid Karkehabadi & Hamidreza Zarei

  2. Department of Engineering Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Uromeihy

  3. Department of Management, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran

    Hamidreza Karkehabadi

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Karkehabadi, V., Zarei, H., Uromeihy, A. et al. Investigating the Economic Performance of Tunnel Excavation in Iran: 1998–2013. Geotech Geol Eng 32, 1353–1362 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-014-9805-0

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