Publications by Federica Sandrone

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This project, supported by the Swiss Federal Roads Authority (OFROU), focuses on the long term behaviour of road tunnels and on their main pathologies. As a tunnel is composed by lining structure and rock mass, it has been necessary to consider the effects ...

Adopting effective maintenance strategies for transportation infrastructures requires good prediction of their long-term behaviour. For planning interventions without affecting the entire network’s capacity, tunnels in particular require a good overview of ...

Despite the potential excellent performance of TBMs in favourable ground conditions, the presence of fault zones or heavily jointed rocks represent important geological hazards encountered during tunnel excavation. The effects of these challenging environm ...

In order to evaluate the general conditions (i.e. safety, serviceability and durability) of tunnels, a detailed analysis of the lining structure and surrounding rock mass is required. During the service life of the tunnel, regular survey activities should ...

Since both lining structure and rock mass exhibit delayed behaviour, tunnel equilibrium conditions evolve with time. After discussing existing work done on different aspects of long-term tunnel behaviour, the aim of this paper is to “understand” the influe ...

Yosemite National Park, located in the central part of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, is a glacially carved landscape filled with iconic rock formations such as Cathedral Peak, El Capitan, and Half Dome. Igneous rocks, consisting primarily of variat ...

This paper focuses on performance analysis of Tunnel Boring Machine (in particular gripper TBMs) in highly jointed rock masses and fault zones. In order to investigate possible relationships between these difficult excavation conditions and TBM performance ...

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Analysis of pathologies and long term behaviour of the Swiss national road tunnels

A GIS based approach for analysing geological and operation conditions influence on road tunnels degradation

Probabilistic simulations of TBM Tunnelling in highly fractured and faulted rocks

Identification and analysis of Swiss National Road tunnels pathologies

Analysis of the evolution of road tunnels equilibrium conditions with a convergence–confinement approach

Rock strength properties of granitic rocks in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Analysis and estimation of gripper TBM performances in highly fractured and faulted rocks

The analysis of tunnel excavation in difficult ground conditions with the Decision Aids for Tunnelling (DAT)

A study of the TBM performance in fault zones and highly fractured rocks

Preliminary identification of Swiss road tunnels pathologies based on geotechnical G.I.S. data

Investigation and analysis procedures for tunnel refurbishment

Data collection for Swiss road tunnels maintenance