The Construction of the Gotthard Base Tunnel

 The Gotthard Base Tunnel is with a length of 57.09 kilometres, the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world. It opened on 1 June 2016 with full service to begin in December this year. The project consists of two single-track tunnels connecting Erstfeld (Uri) with Bodio (Ticino) and passing below Sedrun (Graubünden). The tunnel boring machines were as long as four football fields laid end-to-end with a cutterhead diameter from 8.8 to 9.55 metres. Issue 2/2016 of our journal Geomechanics and Tunnelling is dedicated to the construction of the recently opened tunnel. We have opened some of the articles in our online library, Wiley Online Library, so you can read them at no additional cost.

The Journal Geomechanics and Tunnelling

The contributions published in Geomechanics and Tunnelling deal with tunnelling, rock engineering and applications of rock and soil mechanics as well as engineering geology in practice. Each issue focuses on a current topic or specific project. Brief news, reports from construction sites and news on conferences round off the content. An internationally renowned Editorial Board assures a highly interesting selection of topics and guarantees the high standard of the contributions.

It is the official journal for ÖGG- Österreichische Gesellschaft für Geomechanik – members.

The journal is published bimonthly and all articles are available in English and German. The editor in chief is Dr.-Ing. Helmut Richter from Ernst & Sohn.

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