E. Farrokh

[ 1 ] - Introducing hard rock TBMs’ downtime analysis model with reference to past case histories’ data

The study of downtime and subsequently machine utilization in a given project is one of the major requirements of an accurate estimation of TBM performance and daily advance rate. Interestingly, while it is very common to report the components of downtime when discussing a tunneling project in the literature; there has not been a great amount of in-depth studies on this topic in the recent year...