Composite Shell Lining for Tunnels and Mined Stations

Amit Kaul, BASF India Limited (Construction Chemicals Division), India, tells about the innovative tunnel lining system and related design aspects, and also describes the main advantages of this lining system in comparison to the traditional double shell lining system.

During the last two decades, significant progress was made in sprayed concrete technology, with advanced admixtures, as well as in the application of sprayed concrete, with sophisticated spraying robots and in waterproofing, with spray applied membranes. Also numerical design techniques have improved. All these factors have enabled designers to use sprayed concrete linings increasingly for long-term service life. In many cases, the traditional double-shell lining system was replaced by the composite shell lining system, which consists of two concrete linings with a sprayed waterproofing membrane between linings.

Typical tunnel lining configurations are the double-shell lining (DSL), the single shell lining (SSL) and the composite shell lining (CSL), as schematically shown in Figure 1.

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