Publications de Federica Sandrone

Rock strength properties of granitic rocks in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite National Park, located in the central part of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, is a glacially carved landscape filled with iconic rock formations such as Cathedral Peak, El Capitan, and Half Dome. Igneous rocks, consisting primarily of variat ...

U.S. Geological Survey2020

A GIS based approach for analysing geological and operation conditions influence on road tunnels degradation

Vincent Labiouse, Federica Sandrone

Adopting effective maintenance strategies for transportation infrastructures requires good prediction of their long-term behaviour. For planning interventions without affecting the entire network’s capacity, tunnels in particular require a good overview of ...

Elsevier2017

Analysis and estimation of gripper TBM performances in highly fractured and faulted rocks

Federica Sandrone, Jian Zhao, Erika Paltrinieri

This paper focuses on performance analysis of Tunnel Boring Machine (in particular gripper TBMs) in highly jointed rock masses and fault zones. In order to investigate possible relationships between these difficult excavation conditions and TBM performance ...

Elsevier2016

Probabilistic simulations of TBM Tunnelling in highly fractured and faulted rocks

Jean-Paul Dudt, Federica Sandrone, Jian Zhao, Erika Paltrinieri

Despite the potential excellent performance of TBMs in favourable ground conditions, the presence of fault zones or heavily jointed rocks represent important geological hazards encountered during tunnel excavation. The effects of these challenging environm ...

Elsevier2016

A study of the TBM performance in fault zones and highly fractured rocks

Federica Sandrone, Erika Paltrinieri

2014

The analysis of tunnel excavation in difficult ground conditions with the Decision Aids for Tunnelling (DAT)

Jean-Paul Dudt, Federica Sandrone, Jian Zhao, Erika Paltrinieri

2014

Identification and analysis of Swiss National Road tunnels pathologies

Vincent Labiouse, Federica Sandrone

In order to evaluate the general conditions (i.e. safety, serviceability and durability) of tunnels, a detailed analysis of the lining structure and surrounding rock mass is required. During the service life of the tunnel, regular survey activities should ...

Elsevier2011

Analysis of the evolution of road tunnels equilibrium conditions with a convergence–confinement approach

Vincent Labiouse, Federica Sandrone

Since both lining structure and rock mass exhibit delayed behaviour, tunnel equilibrium conditions evolve with time. After discussing existing work done on different aspects of long-term tunnel behaviour, the aim of this paper is to “understand” the influe ...

Springer Vienna2010

Investigation and analysis procedures for tunnel refurbishment

Federica Sandrone

CRC Press/Balkema2010

Analysis of pathologies and long term behaviour of the Swiss national road tunnels

Federica Sandrone

This project, supported by the Swiss Federal Roads Authority (OFROU), focuses on the long term behaviour of road tunnels and on their main pathologies. As a tunnel is composed by lining structure and rock mass, it has been necessary to consider the effects ...

EPFL2008

Data collection for Swiss road tunnels maintenance

Jean-François Mathier, Vincent Labiouse, Federica Sandrone

2007

Preliminary identification of Swiss road tunnels pathologies based on geotechnical G.I.S. data

Jean-François Mathier, Vincent Labiouse, Federica Sandrone

Taylor & Francis2007