The phrase "a section of tunnel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific part or segment of a tunnel, often in contexts related to construction, transportation, or exploration.
Example: "The engineers discovered a section of tunnel that had collapsed due to heavy rainfall."
Alternatives: "a segment of tunnel" or "a portion of tunnel."
Smoke in a section of tunnel was being dealt with by the tunnel's ventilation system.
A laboratory-scale experiment, simulating a section of tunnel kiln, by scale 1 4, has been designed and constructed.
Guided by a sandhog foreman named Jimmy Ryan, Grann described the early stages of work on a section of Tunnel No. 3 far below Tenth Avenue and Thirteenth Street (later stages employed a giant boring machine called a mole): The method of digging through the rock was similar to that used on the first water tunnel.
The new loop was formed by constructing a section of tunnel joining the end of the dead-end reversing tunnel to the west of Shepherd's Bush station and the north side of the depot.
New cored control boreholes were drilled along a section of the tunnel.
Video footage released by the agency showed a section of the tunnel crammed with garbage bags filled with marijuana plants, vacuum-packed packages of marijuana and sophisticated greenhouses with top-quality lighting, ventilation and irrigation systems, where hundreds of cannabis plants were found in various stages of growth.
The effects of the geometry of the excavation, whether a section of cylindrical tunnel or a spherical cavity, the depth of the cavity in relation to its radius, and the effect of the support pressure and ground surcharge load in relation to the cohesion of the ground, on the factor of safety are examined.
Rescuers in central Vietnam are trying to reach 12 men trapped underground after a section of a tunnel collapsed.
Local media reported that a section of the tunnel collapsed about 500m (1,640ft) from the entrance around 07:00 local time (00 00 GMT), crushing tubes supplying oxygen to the workers.
The approach is exemplified on a section of the tunnel studied in this paper, where the pairings Cij are generally uniformly distributed, but have a somewhat greater density near built-up areas.
Karin Schneider uses a short section of tunnel as a kind of multipurpose exhibition space: a screening room, a painting gallery, and a theater for eye-tormenting light-show displays.
