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Nuclear Tunnel Building Equipment: It's Real And So Is The Science Behind it--Spain, Switzerland And US Use Tunnel Building Machines For Tunnels And Underground Cities

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OPENING NEW TUNNEL SOUTH BY - PASS M30 SOUTH
The Mayor opens the South Tunnel Bypass South, ending with the renovation of the M-30
A time of the act
  • The bypass is a great shortcut of 1.5 kilometers, an alternative to the 260,000 vehicles a day that travel the southern arc, 30% of which (80,000) will use
  • The 30th Street project removes the barrier to the south and west, the river recovers, sets the stage for a park of one million m2, reduce accidents by more than 50% and eliminates 35,000 tons of greenhouse gases this year
  • Investment in the underground bypass on a South amounts to 551.9 million euros, while the set of actions that the mayor opened today amounts to 622 700 000
  • The tunnel has the most advanced security systems, by the Tunnel Control Center Calle 30: 92 cameras, 21 message signs, 374 speakers and 19 emergency exits
  • So far 270,000 trees have been planted related to reform, not only in the districts through which runs Calle 30, also in other
Tunnel Plan (section opened today) M30

The day has come!
With the opening of the tunnel south of the bypass south end today the renovation of the M-30, which began on September 24, 2004. The City Mayor, Alberto Ruiz - Gallardón , has opened this underground, closing a wound that bisected the capital, provides the basis to create in its place a new meeting, and turns what was a way outdated and unsafe traffic at a dealer, equipped with the most advanced technology in the service of road safety. 
Among the many achievements that includes the reform of the M-30 include reduced traffic in the city, which allows spaces that will recover make it more habitable. From a new Cuesta de Moyano pedestrian Plaza de Santo Domingo, passing along the boulevard on Avenida de Portugal, or the streets open to pedestrians as Arenal, Montera, Fuencarraland O ‘ Donnell .
Section tunnel

The 30th Street project has been a great effort to improve the competitiveness of Madrid and the quality of life of its citizens. Removes the barrier with the South and West recovered the river, provides the basis for a park of one million m2, reduce accidents by more than 50%, eliminating 35,000 tons of greenhouse gases this year, has allowedpedestrianise many areas, “and improved mobility for short trips and restore public the most precious: time.” 
Benefits are for the whole of the city, especially for the one million residents who live in the five districts closest to river.

The southern tunnel bypass

South Tunnel Details Bypass

The new underground North joins South, which opened in March, and gives full functionality of this alternative route that solves, with Ambassadors connection with the A-4 and M-40, South Node problems, the most congested and dangerous of the old M-30. The tunnel from west to east has two entrances . The first , through the underground river system up to the Vicente Calderon stadium, by a stretch of 1.6 kilometers underground. This leads to the bypass , which emerges in the M-30 at the height of the strip of the Mediterranean, or in the A-3. 
And the second access , through spur Marqués de Vadillo , also opened this morning. In total, nearly 6 miles of underground track, along the stretch from Portugal Avenue, become 12: “the longest urban tunnel in the world.”
Investment in the underground bypass in South direction amounts to 551, 9 million euros, although the set of actions that the mayor opened today amounts to 622.7 million. To materialize have been used the most advanced: the TBM has excavated and lined Tizona 3.6 kilometers of tunnel in six months and the Security Center Control Works and Infrastructure, 1911 prepared with sensors to monitor the slightest impact, not detected none. 
tunnel itself has the most advanced security systems, which are in charge of the Tunnel Control Center Calle 30: 92 cameras, 21 message signs, 374 speakers and 19 emergency exits and connections North tunnel and a lower road assistance vehicle.

 
Tunnel full RIVER M30


A great shortcut

The bypass set a great shortcut of 1.5 kilometers, an alternative to the 260,000 vehicles a day that travel the southern arc, 30% of which (80,000) will be used. The City Council also expects a reduction in accidents of 53%, and a great improvement in the environmental quality of the residents of Legazpi , Bridge Vallecas and Usera , due to traffic flow and particle filtering systems, which retain 80%. 
Currently 270,000 trees have been planted related to reform, not only in the districts through which runs Calle 30, also in twelve districts. 
To get to this day the 30th Street project “has exceeded more obstacles that no other infrastructure in Spain “by the best engineers, workers and businesses. For the 5,200 workers who have come to participate in the works simultaneously creating added 60,000 jobs, an investment that will generate 23,000 more, and this work will give Madrid a return of 1.79 euros for every euro invested.

A fitting tribute:
 
Both parents of the work, not only Gallardón , without Melis not have been possible .
NEW VIDEO OFFICIAL
ACT TODAY
ON M30

VIDEO TUNNEL SOUTH
BY - PASS SOUTH
(NOW OPEN)
If anyone is interested here are the
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PREVIOUS ARTICLES RELATED M30:

1. TUNNEL AREA OUTSIDE RIO - M30 – UPDATED TO DAY MARCH 12. OPENING BETWEEN SAN VICENTE CALDERON ANDPOL DE MAR (ADDRESS A6) - TUNNELS M30 (to 16 February). OPENINGS- VIDEOS AND PICTURES - ALSO M30 LINK WITH Avenida de Portugal. 
3. KNOT SOUTH AND TOGETHER WITH CALDERÓN THE TUNNEL longest SPAIN (M30) PLANO, PHOTOS AND VIDEOS .
TUNNEL BY - PASS M30 SOUTH-MADRID (PHOTOS AND PANORAMIC)
TBM THE BY - PASS M30 SOUTH CURRENTLY THE MOST- DIAMETER OF THE WORLD – (M30) (MADRID) ( SPAIN )
6. INTRODUCTION BY PASS SOUTH M30 (MADRID) (drawings and data)
7. M30 PAST AND FUTURE (MADRID) MADRID RIVER PROJECT 
8. M30 WINNER OF REFORM PROPOSAL ON MANZANANARES . Burgos & Garrido . WEST 8 - RENDERS . PROJECT RIO MADRID 
9. OTHER PROPOSALS they reached the final competition of ideas environment reform M30 (MADRID) ( RENDERS )MADRID RIVER PROJECT 
10. VIDEO - M30-TUNNEL BETWEEN KNOT BETWEEN SOUTH-CALDERON CALDERON AND VIRGIN PORT-OUT. (MADRID) (SPAIN )
11. SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE KNOT WORK M30 / A2 – (Madrid). Peri period December -2004 to September-2006. ( Spain )
12. Updated photos AIR M30 M30 JANUARY 2007
13. BY - PASS M30 SOUTH (CONTINUED ) (MADRID) ( SPAIN )
14. TUNNEL OPENING IN – Avenida de Portugal – Cuesta de San Vicente (MADRID) M30
15. opens to traffic the longest urban tunnel EUROPE - BY - PASS SOUTH – M30 (MADRID)
16. MORE VIDEOS ON VARIOUS WORKS OF REMODELING OF M30: (MADRID)
17. TODAY MANZANARES SAYS GOODBYE TO CARS (MADRID) M30
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Data, video and images of the City of Madrid:
 
 

 

 

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We continue with the series on the bypass south of the M30.
 
 

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SOUTH BYPASS TUNNEL M30
 
 
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I inform you, who do not know, that
Discovery Channel is preparing a documentary about this great work.
Then I leave the text in English and Castilian accompanying the article of your page.
Section type tunnel. 
 
 
7.5 Km

 

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The M30 Madrid Project
Discovery Channel
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Madrid is currently suffering a traffic crisis, needs to be solved That Quickly and Efficiently, as the city has expanded in recent years and Rapidly dangerous congestion is becoming an almost constant problem. Madrid’s inner ring road, the Calle 30, is the worst offender.The busiest road in Spain, running close to the Manzanares River, it is famous for its traffic jams and pollution. 
The M30 project AIMS to solve the problems of gridlock on Madrid’s roads by refurbishing the road and running major sections of it beneath the city, creating new parkland and riverside above. A total of 99km of new road and 56km of tunnel will Have Been constructed by the time the project is completed. With an Estimated budget of € 3.7 billion and completion date (already behind) of mid-2007, this is a major undertaking! 
The M30 Madrid Project is so massive That not less than seven Earth Pressure Balanced (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) of various specifications Have Been Specially ordered for the 15 separate projects around the city. 
one such machine came from German firm Herrenknecht AG. It was too massive to transport whole and had to be reassembled on site.With an immense 15m diameter and weighing 4000-tonnes, it surpassed its expected 300m per month progress and Achieved 500m per month (36m per day) – finishing its tunnel ahead of schedule. In August 2006, a similarly-proportioned machine from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Spanish company Duro Felguera beat this record by 40m Achieving progress in a single day.
Section type:
 
The Tunnel Madrid M-30 on Discovery Channel
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The inner ring road in Madrid, the M-30, is the busiest road in Spain. It is a road famous for its traffic jams and pollution. The crisis in chronic traffic had to be solved quickly due to the expansion of the city in recent years and that congestion was becoming a constant problem. The ambitious project M-30 seeks to solve the problem of road congestion Madrid by reshaping the road and the burial of long stretches, allowing the reconstruction of paved areas intended for surface traffic in parks, pedestrian streets, lanes bicycle or new homes. They have built 99 km of new roads and 56 km of tunnel at the end of the project. With an estimated budget of 3,700 million euros and delivery date in mid-2007, is a major engineering project. Several tunnel sections are already open to traffic.
One of the most difficult challenges is the southern bypass, for which a team of German engineers Herrenknecht designed what was then the world’s largest tunnel boring machine for tunnel excavation north while Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Duro Felguera designed and assembled a second machine as big as her sister, to the south tunnel excavation. On February 26 at seven pm, Discovery Channel will present a program about the great achievements of the project of the M-30. Type section of the tunnel.
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A few photos:
TBM:
 
 
VIDEOS ON
TBMs
THE BY-PASS
This first video is the most interesting thing I’ve found
TBMs on the southern bypass.
Hope you like.
 
 
 
ENGLISH VERSION
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NORTHERN TUNNEL
 
SOUTH TUNNEL

Final Draft (north tunnel) Data:
 
 
The world’s largest tunnel boring machine with 15.2 meters in diameter and 22,000 kilowatts of power, completed its work in record time. The S-300 EPB machine, created specifically for Herrenknecht tunnel to bypass northern South M-30 in Madrid, has completed the installation phase of excavation and lining of the infrastructure of 3,578 meters long in seven months .
He has worked at a rate of 500 meters per month, 200 more than the 300 that was initially anticipated. His breakthrough record was 36 meters per day . On his way has drawn more than a million cubic meters of earth or what is the same almost 500 trucks a day loaded from the start of construction. Some 600 people have worked on this work in four shifts for 24 hours a day.

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3. IMAGES OF THE WELL OF ATTACK
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These photos taken in November on a visit to the site.

 

 

 
Renders, images and video www.munimadrid.es
Photos urbanscraper.com attack well. 
m30 m30 Reform + Tunnel + m30 + southern bypass

 

 

 

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Here I leave some photos of a visit
the work of the Southern bypass the m30 I did a few months ago.
Currently the TBM and is being dismantled.
Machine Head. You can see the cats on the voussoirs push. 
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2.PARTE:
TBM BY - PASS M30 SOUTH
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Data TBM :

M-30 EPB Tunnel Boring Machine TBM - EPB Length : 14 m TBM - EPB Weight : 3.600 Tback up Length : 146 m.Weight : 1.300 TOverall dimensions Length : 160 m. Total weight : 4.900 Main bearing ( manufactured in a sole piece )Diameter : 8.7 m. Weight : 50 TCutting progress Average daily advance rate is 20 m per day . Total power installed 1, 500 kw . 

 

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The two TBMs working in the tunnel:

TRAVEL PHOTO
WITHIN ONE OF THE TUNNEL
OF BY - PASS SOUTH.

If pinchais any picture you come into a slide within the TBM , quality feel but without tripod and without light is complicated. 
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Arriving by train to the TBM .
View from the back of the TBM . The impressive dimensions within the tunnel . 
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Arriving at the top of the machine.

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TBM
tunnel boring machine or TBM (the English Tunnel Boring Machine ) is a machine capable of diggingtunnels full section, while collaborating in placing a hold if this is necessary, either temporarily or permanently.Excavation is usually accomplished by a rotating head equipped with cutting elements and driven by hydraulic motors (fed in turn by electric motors, since the overall power of the machine is done with electricity), although there are alsoTBMs less mechanized rotating headless . The thrust necessary for advance is achieved by a jacking system perimeterto be supported by the support ring placed last or shoe mobile (called grippers ), also actuated by jacks that push against the tunnel wall so obtained a fixed point from which to push. Behind the digging equipment and the breakthrough is placed called “lags team” of the TBM (in English denomination or back up ), constituted by a series of platforms carried by the machine itself and which, often roll on rails that same TBM places, which houses all equipment transformers, ventilation, and mortar stores evacuation system of excavated material. yields achieved with TBMs swivel head are very high when compared to other tunneling methods, but their use is not profitable to a minimum length of tunnel digging: Needless to amortize the cost of the machine and eclipse the time it takes to design it, produce it, transport it and mount (which can reach two years). Also, digging tunnels with TBM must have radii high because the machines do not accept closed curves, and section must be circular tunnels swivel head.

Render of the type section of the tunnels of the Bypass south of the M30.

 

VIDEO ENGLISH OPERATION 
OF A TBM 
ENGLISH VERSION

Video http://www.youtube.com/ thank Ibrido .

VIDEO TIMING end of the tunnel
With heplerlord can see this video on youtube

 
More info in english here:
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I hope you have enjoyed the pictures and videos :)
Photos inside tunnel and tunneling own.
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TBM
NORTHERN TUNNEL
“Dulcinea”
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Tunnel boring machine “Dulcinea”
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Specifications:

Details and photos www.munimadrid.es

 

 

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As in most of the articles
clicking on any photo
your entering
a slide show
and panoramic photo
a visit I made to work in December.
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1.TÚNEL
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CITY OFFICIAL VIDEO
NEW TUNNEL ON THE SOUTH BY-PASS
and on the TBM.
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With heplerlord at www.youtube.com
 



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