Symposium Topics
The purpose of the International Tunneling Symposium, Turkey is to discuss various issues related to classical and mechanized tunneling, focusing on planning, design, operation, monitoring-measurement, experimentation, modeling, research and development. The symposium's areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Difficult ground conditions, tectonic stresses, faulting, karstic grounds, squeezing ground, swelling ground, excessive water
ingress.
Hyperbaric Intervention in the TBM pressure chamber, tunnel face stability problems and proposed solutions, chemical
injection.
Machine performance-ground relationships, case studies, modeling and numerical solutions.
Environmental issues limiting the use of construction chemicals, international standards, carbon emissions, foaming
chemicals, concrete and shotcrete chemicals, polymers, water-repellent chemicals, etc.
Gassy tunnels (mechanized or conventional), gas control, ventilation, gas measurement and monitoring, fan technology,
automation, air and dust analysis.
Remote sensing, deformation measurements, ground improvement.
Fire, Accident, Stability Monitoring and Precautions in Tunnel Operation
Applied hydraulics for tunnel machines, hydraulic control (breakdown-failure detection, sensors, etc.).
Artificial intelligence, digital twinning, digital transformation in tunneling.
Long tunnels, large diameter tunnels and associated problems.
Very hard – very abrasive grounds, comparative TBM and drill-and-blast tunneling.
The symposium presentations will be made by invited experts with national and international recognition and will be translated simultaneously from Turkish to English and from English to Turkish.
