tunnel blasting
1Tunnel — This article is about underground passages. For other uses, see Tunnel (disambiguation). Underground tunnel for heatpipes between Rigshospitalet and Amagerværket in Denmark …
2Tunnel boring machine — A tunnel boring machine that was used at Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository A tunnel boring machine (TBM) also known as a mole , is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata.… …
3Tunnel and Reservoir Plan — The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the… …
4tunnel — tunneler; esp. Brit., tunneller, n. tunnellike, adj. /tun l/, n., v., tunneled, tunneling or (esp. Brit.) tunnelled, tunnelling. n. 1. an underground passage. 2. a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a… …
5Nam Wan Tunnel — entrance. Traditional Chinese 南灣隧道 Simplified Chinese …
6Hoosac Tunnel — ▪ tunnel, Massachusetts, United States the first major rock tunnel built in the United States. The tunnel runs through Hoosac Mountain of the Berkshire Hills, east of North Adams, Mass., and was built to provide a rail connection between… …
7Kanmon Tunnel — ▪ tunnel, Japan world s first under ocean tunnel (tunnels and underground excavations), stretching 2.25 miles (about 3.5 km) between the islands of Honshu and Kyushu in Japan. During its construction (1936–44), nearly every known tunneling… …
8Drilling and blasting — Before the advent of tunnel boring machines, drilling and blasting was the only economical way of excavating long tunnels through hard rock, where digging is not possible. Even today, the method is still used in the construction of tunnels, such… …
9Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel — Infobox Book name = Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel orig title = Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes translator = image caption = author = Victor Appleton cover artist = country = United States language = English series =… …
10Hoosac Tunnel — The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75 mile long (7.64 km) railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts which passes through the Hoosac Range, an extension of Vermont s Green Mountains.The tunnel s east portal is in… …
