economic evaluation of deep tunnel construction methods

Faculty Engineering Year: 1994
Type of Publication: Theses Pages: 163
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BibID 10319177
Keywords : tunnels    
Abstract:
Deep tunnel construction is considered as one of thelargest projects in which high level of experience, hightechnological instrumental equipments and enormous quantitiesof materials are required. ”Ameria tunnel pumping station”which is a part of ”The Greater Cairo Waste Water Project” isone of these projects. It is a cylinderical reinforcedconcrete shaft of 45 m in diameter and 35 m in depth with 2.5mwall thickness. The suggested methods of constructing thisproject type wer,e sheet piling, compressed air, groundfreezing, open-caisson, and diaphragm wall methods. Accordingto the ground and environmental conditions and tunnel designfeature, open-caisson and diaphragm wall methods are chosenas the most suitable methods for constructing this project.Economic evaluation of these alternatives is the mostimportant factor in selecting the favourable constructionmethod. This study has evaluated economically these twoalternatives by estimating the project cost and the predictedrevenue and calculating, the net present value of the projectcash flow for these two methods. Finally this study hasproved that diaphragm wall method is the most economic9- Due to the fact that the system is locally developed in Water Engineering and Water Structures Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, the system can be easily customized to meet the requirements of other department courses.6.3 Recommendations:Based on the previous conclusions and investigations of the proposed software, the following recommendations may be indicated:1- ZUHL needs much more effective measures to overcome its bad conditions that threaten the whole experimental work activities. These measures should be available as soon as possible and with enough financial and administrative support.2- The proposed system, EHES, should be continuously extended to include more experiments, as it doesn’t include all experiments that can be conducted in the laboratory.3- The proposed system is to be periodically updated to match the new experiments and techniques that are expected to be existed in ZUHL.4- A video display of experiment is recommended to be added to the proposed system to reach better understanding of the experimental procedures.5- The proposed system can be employed to serve other department courses such as Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage and Water Structures Design courses.6- Integrating this system with the ongoing e-learning project in the department will expand its usefulness.7- The proposed system with the e-learning one is believed to be a good tool to be used by professors and lectures for testing the students, especially with enormous number of students currently enrolled in civil engineering courses.CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS6.1 General:Due to the current state of most Egyptian colleges and institutes with large student number makes it difficult for students to perform the experimental exercises as intended in engineering education process. This led to defects in their understanding to the theoretical concepts.A new method of experimental teaching is proposed to improve the students’ performance. The expert system technology was employed to develop a computer programs capable of reducing the required time in laboratory and be adequate for the actual level of students.6.2 Conclusions:Based on the current study of the ZUHL situation, the following conclusions can be stated:1- ZUHL suffers from serious technical, administrative and financial problems that greatly affect its performance on both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.2- The current state of the ZUHL and other circumstances of educational process, computer is to be employed as a tool to enhance the educational process and students outcomes.3- An educational expert system, EHES, was developed (using VB 6.0), and proposed to help the students to learn the basic experiments in the field of fluid mechanics and hydraulics.4- The EHES system is an interactive software with a user-friendly interface and a set of options that makes it an effective educational tool.5- The proposed system reduces the required time in the laboratory as it gives the basic knowledge about the experiment and the time spent by the students will be only to perform the experiments himself.6- The scientific material in the proposed system is displayed in a text format, which can be easily copied to any other document.7- The proposed system can be used to evaluate the student understanding through a variety of tests.8- The knowledge employed in the proposed system is written in a manner that facilitates its modification and update.9- Due to the fact that the system is locally developed in Water Engineering and Water Structures Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, the system can be easily customized to meet the requirements of other department courses.6.3 Recommendations:Based on the previous conclusions and investigations of the proposed software, the following recommendations may be indicated:1- ZUHL needs much more effective measures to overcome its bad conditions that threaten the whole experimental work activities. These measures should be available as soon as possible and with enough financial and administrative support.2- The proposed system, EHES, should be continuously extended to include more experiments, as it doesn’t include all experiments that can be conducted in the laboratory.3- The proposed system is to be periodically updated to match the new experiments and techniques that are expected to be existed in ZUHL.4- A video display of experiment is recommended to be added to the proposed system to reach better understanding of the experimental procedures.5- The proposed system can be employed to serve other department courses such as Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage and Water Structures Design courses.6- Integrating this system with the ongoing e-learning project in the department will expand its usefulness.7- The proposed system with the e-learning one is believed to be a good tool to be used by professors and lectures for testing the students, especially with enormous number of students currently enrolled in civil engineering courses.CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS6.1 General:Due to the current state of most Egyptian colleges and institutes with large student number makes it difficult for students to perform the experimental exercises as intended in engineering education process. This led to defects in their understanding to the theoretical concepts.A new method of experimental teaching is proposed to improve the students’ performance. The expert system technology was employed to develop a computer programs capable of reducing the required time in laboratory and be adequate for the actual level of students.6.2 Conclusions:Based on the current study of the ZUHL situation, the following conclusions can be stated:1- ZUHL suffers from serious technical, administrative and financial problems that greatly affect its performance on both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.2- The current state of the ZUHL and other circumstances of educational process, computer is to be employed as a tool to enhance the educational process and students outcomes.3- An educational expert system, EHES, was developed (using VB 6.0), and proposed to help the students to learn the basic experiments in the field of fluid mechanics and hydraulics.4- The EHES system is an interactive software with a user-friendly interface and a set of options that makes it an effective educational tool.5- The proposed system reduces the required time in the laboratory as it gives the basic knowledge about the experiment and the time spent by the students will be only to perform the experiments himself.6- The scientific material in the proposed system is displayed in a text format, which can be easily copied to any other document.7- The proposed system can be used to evaluate the student understanding through a variety of tests.8- The knowledge employed in the proposed system is written in a manner that facilitates its modification and update.9- Due to the fact that the system is locally developed in Water Engineering and Water Structures Department, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, the system can be easily customized to meet the requirements of other department courses.6.3 Recommendations:Based on the previous conclusions and investigations of the proposed software, the following recommendations may be indicated:1- ZUHL needs much more effective measures to overcome its bad conditions that threaten the whole experimental work activities. These measures should be available as soon as possible and with enough financial and administrative support.2- The proposed system, EHES, should be continuously extended to include more experiments, as it doesn’t include all experiments that can be conducted in the laboratory.3- The proposed system is to be periodically updated to match the new experiments and techniques that are expected to be existed in ZUHL.4- A video display of experiment is recommended to be added to the proposed system to reach better understanding of the experimental procedures.5- The proposed system can be employed to serve other department courses such as Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage and Water Structures Design courses.6- Integrating this system with the ongoing e-learning project in the department will expand its usefulness.7- The proposed system with the e-learning one is believed to be a good tool to be used by professors and lectures for testing the students, especially with enormous number of students currently enrolled in civil engineering courses.CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS3- Placement of the PI-SVC controller at generator buses is an effective means for improving the dynamic performance of the power system. But using a PI-PSS stabilizer is still preferable due to its lower cost option. In addition, locating the PI-SVC controller at load buses with the generators speed control feedback signals may improve the power system damping in some cases. But due to the excessive expenses to transmit the speed from the machine to the PI-SVC controller at the load buses as remote signals, that is outlooked. Furthermore, selecting the reactive power or the current flow as control feedaback signals at a suitable load bus location will lead to the desired damping.4- The gains of the conventional SVC controller should be computed for each operating condition separately. Because the controller gains that may be acceptable for certain operating condition may have negative effect on the system damping for other operating condition. Thus, ANN-RBF technique is proposed to adapt the PI-SVC stabilizer gains to enhance the power system damping over a wide range of typical load model parameters and/or load quantities. The proposed method was trained based on real-time measurements of load model parameters. RBF is of less computational time, less number of epochs and less error than MLP technique. Simulation results show that the proposed damping PI controller is an effective means for improving the dynamic performance of the power system in a single machine infinite bus system and multi-machine system. 
   
     
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