DESIGN AND PROTOTYPE OF TUNNEL BORING MACHINE

  Rohit Deshmukh,  Lokesh Kolhe

This project aims at study of Tunnel Boring Machine and using this reference thus making a model of Tunnel Boring Machine which will in turn produce the same visual effect as that of the known Tunnel Boring Machine but at small scale and with reduced mechanical complexities. A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock strata. Nowadays industries looking for advance machines which can bore through rocks with reduced disturbance to surrounding soil. Noise, bore and disturbance of a soil are not only concerns the biggest concern is the safety. So to overcome the above problems tunnel boring machine is design which also produce smooth tunnel wall reducing ventilation requirements and increase the speed.

Keywords- Tunnel boring, drilling and blasting, axial stress, cutting tool

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1604049
Page Number(s) - 313-316
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 4 | November 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Rohit Deshmukh,  Lokesh Kolhe,   "DESIGN AND PROTOTYPE OF TUNNEL BORING MACHINE", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 4, pp.313-316, November 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1604049.pdf