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  • Thumbnail for Drilling and blasting
    civil engineering such as dam, tunnel or road construction. The result of rock blasting is often known as a rock cut. Drilling and blasting currently utilizes...
    12 KB (1,455 words) - 10:46, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uttarakhand tunnel rescue
    as the tunnel drilling machine broke and became stuck inside the tunnel after successfully drilling 47 metres (154 ft), hampering the drilling's progress...
    35 KB (2,748 words) - 10:14, 15 April 2024
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    intermittent tunnel drilling for future stations continuing through the early and mid-2020s. The transportation system consists of twin tunnels in which Tesla...
    13 KB (1,134 words) - 22:34, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Henry (folklore)
    tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel. The story of John Henry is...
    38 KB (4,545 words) - 01:31, 2 June 2024
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    each of which requires specialized technology. Tunnel boring machines are an alternative to drilling and blasting (D&B) methods and "hand mining". TBMs...
    34 KB (4,028 words) - 20:23, 24 April 2024
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    fabrications, such as underground utilities, instrumentation, tunnels or wells. Drilling rigs can be mobile equipment mounted on trucks, tracks or trailers...
    15 KB (1,734 words) - 20:42, 2 April 2024
  • Pallonji Group, and STRABAG AG, Austria, in September 2009. The drilling of the Rohtang Tunnel through the Himalayan ranges began on 28 June 2010 at the South...
    29 KB (3,044 words) - 14:32, 2 February 2024
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    Bridges, Tunnels, Dams, Roads and Other Structures. Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 9781135932541. Browne, Malcomn W. (1990-12-02). "Tunnel Drilling, Old as Babylon...
    7 KB (699 words) - 11:43, 29 May 2024
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    on 1 September 1957. Drilling began in 1959 and was completed in 1962; the tunnel was opened to traffic on 19 July 1965. The tunnel is 11.611 km (7.215 mi)...
    15 KB (1,433 words) - 20:19, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bertha (tunnel boring machine)
    14, 2016, Governor Jay Inslee ordered drilling on the tunnel to stop, invoking a contract clause in the tunnel agreement that allowed the state to suspend...
    39 KB (3,647 words) - 02:42, 21 May 2024
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    final tunnel or used as a backup or emergency escape passage. Alternatively, horizontal boreholes may sometimes be drilled ahead of the advancing tunnel face...
    99 KB (11,941 words) - 23:49, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tunnel tree
    A tunnel tree is a large tree in whose trunk a tunnel has been drilled. This practice took place mainly at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th...
    3 KB (123 words) - 02:17, 30 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hallandsås Tunnel
    being revised to 2015. As the consortium decided to drill only one tunnel at a time, only one tunnel boring machine (TBM) was used for the revived project...
    15 KB (1,556 words) - 13:52, 20 November 2023
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    Jackhammer (redirect from Pneumatic Drill)
    to drive his drill, making it the first true pneumatic drill. The demand for pneumatic drills was driven especially by miners and tunnelers because steam...
    19 KB (2,456 words) - 10:00, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thames Tunnel
    The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 ft (11 m) wide by 20 ft (6.1 m) high...
    29 KB (3,640 words) - 17:22, 6 May 2024
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    1999 at Amsteg. Drilling operations were completed in March 2011. The final cost is projected as CHF 9.560 billion. The Gotthard Base Tunnel, with a length...
    81 KB (7,780 words) - 21:38, 28 May 2024
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    the British tunnel boring machine tunnelled, through chalk, a total of 1,840 m (6,037 ft), while Lavalley used a similar machine to drill 1,669 m (5,476 ft)...
    155 KB (15,916 words) - 13:10, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gotthard Tunnel
    The Gotthard Tunnel (German: Gotthardtunnel, Italian: Galleria del San Gottardo) is a 15-kilometre-long (9.3 mi) railway tunnel that forms the summit of...
    20 KB (2,323 words) - 00:49, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Drilling jumbo
    A Drilling jumbo or drill jumbo is a rock drilling machine. Drilling jumbos are usually used in underground mining, if mining is done by drilling and...
    2 KB (225 words) - 05:40, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Marmaray Tunnel
    the tunnels were lowered into place, they were covered with fill, de-watered and sealed. Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) were used to drill the tunnels under...
    8 KB (688 words) - 03:59, 5 April 2024
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