Sentence examples for weak tunnel from inspiring English sources

With Fatah defeated and dispersed, and Fatah's large stock of ammunition and guns captured by Hamas, the arms market for people like him, Muhammad said, has collapsed like a weak tunnel.

The results are illustrated in the 'Conditional chart for excavation plan in weak rock tunnelling' which shows the relation of the safety factor and relevant behaviour mode as the round length varies.

Along this section of tunnel, weak rock masses were encountered as well as high in situ stress conditions, which led to excessive deformations and failure of the as built temporary support.

During its construction, numerous cave-ins and landslides occurred because of the fragile and weak rock the tunnel passed through, and at one point, an outbreak of cholera forced work to stop.

An important issue in the construction of shallow tunnels, especially in weak ground conditions, is the tunnel face stability.

Preliminary studies suggested difficult ground due to squeezing conditions along the 1400 m deep tunnel through weak meta-sedimentary rocks.

Furthermore, to guide design work reasonably, the calculation method in determining the weak parts of the tunnel and feasible reinforcement measures are discussed.

In precast concrete lining approach on the one hand, thickness of these blocks is generally more than that of shotcrete layer and they are usually applied when there are weak rocks around the tunnel.

As a result of these material features, a variety of detector families have emerged in recent years based on superconducting nanowires, tunnel junctions, weak thermal links, and kinetic-inductive resonators.

Segmental joints act as a weak link in the tunnel lining both in terms of structural responses (due to the lower stiffness and strength compared to the main segments) and the serviceability considerations (high risk of water/gas leakage).

This work aims to study face stability of a circular tunnel in weak rock masses under the water table based on an advanced three-dimensional (3D) rotational collapse mechanism in the context of the kinematical approach of limit analysis.