Mittelholz Tunnel Monitoring


Location

Mittelholz Tunnel Monitoring, Frutigen
Switzerland

Stress Monitoring
Concrete vault

Système: 
System SOFO
Domain: 
Domain Tunnels
Clients: 
Berner Fachhochschule, Switzerland
Start Year: 
2002
End Year: 
2002
Installation: 
Smartec / Berner Fachhochschule
Short Description: 
During the construction of Lötschberg gallery, a branch of Alptransit Swiss confederation project, the construction of a cut-and-cover tunnel to protect the main street from avalanches has been monitored.
Aims of monitoring: 
The aims were to better understand the tunnel vault behaviour during the recovering to be compared to theoretical hypotheses.
Number of sensors: 
2
Main results: 
The tests have shown the compression strains increasing during each recovering steps.