Sustainable Pipe Jacking Technology in the Urban Environment

Chapter 1: Introduction - Trenchless technology in an urban environment.- Chapter 2: Greening the urban infrastructure and construction methodologies.- Chapter 3: Site investigation techniques for micro-tunnelling via pipe jacking method.- Chapter 4: Characterisation and interpretation of geologies for pipe jacking work.- Chapter 5: Complex soil-pipe interaction challenges that impact project timeline and deliverables.- Chapter 6: Mechanistic behaviour and maintenance challenges of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) affecting jacking performance.- Chapter 7: Innovations and challenges faced in construction of deep shafts for TBM launch and retrieval.- Chapter 8: Innovative long-distance and curved pipe-jacking drives.- Chapter 9: Innovative non-conventional large diameter or non-circular jacking technology.- Chapter 10: Advances in damage assessment, rectificaton and maintenance for pipe-jacking works.

Dr Ong obtained his Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree from The University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1998 and his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2004. His research interests are in soil-structure interaction, deep excavation, tunneling, ground improvement, numerical & centrifuge modelling, and field observational methods. He is currently the President of the Malaysian Geotechnical Society (MGS), Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. He is Fellow and Chartered Professional Engineer of both Engineers Australia (EA) and the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM). He is also currently Joint Editor-in-Chief of the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) journal, Geotechnical Research, and sits in the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee TC104 Physical Modelling in Geomechanics and TC207 Soil-Structure Interactionand Retaining Walls.




Dr Marco Barla is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, teaching 'Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering' and chairing the research group in the areas of rock mechanics, tunnelling and slope stability. He edited one book and over 150 scientific papers and holds a patent of an energy tunnel segment (Enertun). He also acts as a consultant in geotechnical engineering on projects related to slope stability, tunnelling, sewage systems, foundations, monitoring of geotechnical structures and radar interferometry. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics and member of the Editorial Board of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology and of Soils and Rocks. Dr Cheng obtained his Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Geotechnical Engineering in 2005 and 2010, respectively, from the National Taipei University of Technology. His interests in research cover tunnelling and trenchless technologies,