May 2020
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Energy
EPB shield tunnel-boring machine automation using the autonomous-vehicle framework
Advances made in self-driving vehicles and automated drilling during the past decade suggest that tunnel-boring machine (TBM) tunneling is headed…
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Energy
Highway connection through Ouachita Mountains — Arkansas Tunnel study
The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) initiated a high-level tunnel feasibility study for the proposed East-West arterial highway…
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Transportation
Tunnel-boring machines for Norwegian small hydropower projects
Norway has a long history in hydropower and has a yearly production of 135 terawatt hours (TWh) distributed across more…
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