CONSTRUCTION OF OSAKA NANNKOU TUNNEL DESIGNED BY IMMERSED METHOD

This paper describes the outline and technical features of Osaka Nannkou Tunnel (ONT). ONT is an immersed tube type undersea tunnel, comprised of three tubes.One includes two tracks of railroad, while the remaining two tubes are for motor vehicles, two lanes each. Steel-concrete composite type struc...

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Published inPROCEEDINGS OF TUNNEL ENGINEERING, JSCE Vol. 3; pp. 311 - 316
Main Authors OJIMA, Roushi, TAKEMURA, Jun-ichi, NAKAMURA, Isamu, KOIZUMI, Katsuhiko
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan Society of Civil Engineers 1993
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immersed-tube tunnel
steel-concrete composite type structure
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Summary:This paper describes the outline and technical features of Osaka Nannkou Tunnel (ONT). ONT is an immersed tube type undersea tunnel, comprised of three tubes.One includes two tracks of railroad, while the remaining two tubes are for motor vehicles, two lanes each. Steel-concrete composite type structure is adopted as a structure of tunnel elements. this is the first time that this type of structure has been adopted in Japan.
ISSN:1884-9091
DOI:10.11532/journalte1991.3.311