Rock Breaking Performance of TBM Disc Cutter Assisted by High-Pressure Water Jet

A high-pressure water jet can break rock efficiently, which is of great potential to overcome the problems of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) in full-face hard rock tunnel digging, such as low digging efficiency and high disc cutter wear rate. Therefore, this paper presented a new tunneling method tha...

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Published in:	Applied Sciences
Main Authors:	Fengchao Wang, Dapeng Zhou, Xin Zhou, Nanzhe Xiao, Chuwen Guo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Subjects:	TBM high-pressure water jet disc cutter rock breaking mechanism numerical simulation
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/18/6294