A tunnel-boring machine stalled beneath China’s Yangtze River while excavating a highway tunnel, forcing engineers to complete an unprecedented mid-river docking operation over two years.
Construction crews in western China have completed the boring of the 13.7 miles (22.1 kilometers) stretch of the world’s longest expressway tunnel. The boring of the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel was ...
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China turns buried $50m tunnel machine failure into landmark feat of precision engineering
Chinese engineers have managed to turn disaster into a masterful engineering feat by rescuing ...
Often described as "steel dragons," tunnel boring machines, or TBMs, are colossal pieces of equipment essential for digging underground passages. Unlike machinery operating above ground, TBMs work in ...
In rendezvous beneath the Yangtze River, a multimillion-dollar tunnel boring machine meets its stalled twin with just 2mm of vertical error.
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The longest road tunnels in the world
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an aerial photo shows rescuers work at the site of a collapsed road section of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, south China's Guangdong Province, ...
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