ISRTP Presentation Jimmy Thompson Tel Aviv Jan 2014

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Project Location

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Project Organization

• Privately Funded

• Total Investment 1.28 billion USD

• Build, Operate, Transfer Project

• Korean, European and Turkish Bank Loans

• Design Build Construction Contract

• Contractor is JV of Yapi Merkezi (Turkey) and S&K Construction (Korea)

• Detailed Designer is Parsons Brinckerhoff (USA)

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Tunnel Long Section

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TBM Tunnel Cross Section

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• 12m diameter

• 2 lanes in each direction

• No trucks allowed

• Emergency stairs every 200m

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TBM Launch Box

• 40m deep

• 160m long

• Secant piles in soft rock

• Piles in rock

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TBM Launch Box

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TBM Launch Box

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TBM Launch Box

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TBM Launch Box

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TBM

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• Herrenknecht

• Slurry Machine

• 13.6m diameter

• 1200 tons total weight

TBM Model

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TBM Model

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TBM Model

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TBM Cutterhead

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• Cutterheadweighs 350 tons

• Cutterhead is hollow

• Cutterheadallows changing of cutting tools under atmospheric pressure

• Trimix setup for divers to repair cutterhead under 11bar water pressure

Disc Cutter (for Rock)

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TBM Hollow Cutterhead

• Cutterhead is hollow and allows changing of cutting tools under atmospheric pressure

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TBM Hollow Cutterhead

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TBM Front Shield/ Excavation

Chamber

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TBM segmental liner vacuum

plate

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TBM Tailshield

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Segmental Liner Rebar Ladders

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Segmental Liner Rebar Ladders

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Fusion Welding of Ladders

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Allowable Gap At Ring-to-Ring Joints

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0.E+00

2.E+05

4.E+05

6.E+05

8.E+05

1.E+06

7+700 7+800 7+900 8+000 8+100 8+200 8+300 8+400 8+500 8+600 8+700 8+800

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1st Set 2nd Set 3rd Set 4th Set 5th Set 6th Set 7th Set 8th Set Average

0.E+00

2.E+05

4.E+05

6.E+05

8.E+05

1.E+06

7+700 7+800 7+900 8+000 8+100 8+200 8+300 8+400 8+500 8+600 8+700 8+800

Forc

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N)

Average - No Wave Passage Effect Average - Wave Passage European to Asian Average - Wave Passage Asian to European

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Asian to European

No Wave Pass Effects

European to Asian

No Wave Pass Effects

European to Asian Asian to European

No Seismic Joint (Lower Bound Vs Profile)

Seismic Joints (Lower Bound Vs Profile)

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