Tunnels with rough walls and cavities

Often the finishing surfaces of road tunnels (both gables and vaults) present not only important uniform roughness, but even holes that can be numerous and with significant size: usually in uncoated tunnel is where most uniform and major irregularities can be found whilst in rock tunnels excavated w...

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Tipo de recurso:
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6570
Fecha de publicación:
2014
Institución:
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Repositorio:
RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
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spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/12238
Acceso en línea:
https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/ingenieria_sogamoso/article/view/3939
https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/12238
Palabra clave:
tunnels
rugosity
cavities.
túneles
rugosidad
cavidades
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Summary:Often the finishing surfaces of road tunnels (both gables and vaults) present not only important uniform roughness, but even holes that can be numerous and with significant size: usually in uncoated tunnel is where most uniform and major irregularities can be found whilst in rock tunnels excavated with blasting is where most holes can be found. This results in frictions coefficients with the tunnel walls that can be very high. The friction generated by the airflow in the ventilation can result in very important aerodynamic thrust requirements (with ventilation through jet-fans), which imply significant power consumption. Pressure losses in rugous tunnels and with the presence of cavities are analyzed for road tunnels with longitudinal ventilation through jet-fans, evaluating the aerodynamic thrust required to counter the corresponding losses.