Device and method for driviing a tunnel
AssigneeHerrenknecht AG
InventorsGERHARD WEHRMEYER, LINUS MÖLLER, WERNER BURGER, ANDREAS KASSEL
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Abstract
An apparatus for excavating a tunnel includes a cutting wheel equipped with measuring modules of sensor means on its cutting wheel face in order to directly sample the consistency of the material present between the cutting wheel face and a tunnel face by recording different types of measured values characteristic of this.
Claims11
An apparatus for excavating a tunnel with a rotatable cutting wheel (109), with which an existing geology can be excavated in an excavation direction at the front on a tunnel face (118) with excavation tools (115) arranged on a cutting wheel face (112), with an excavation chamber (121) arranged on the back of the cutting wheel face (112) in the excavation direction, into which excavation chamber material excavated at the tunnel face (118) can be conveyed, with a discharge unit (127, 136), with which material present in the excavation chamber (121) can be removed, and with sensor means arranged on the cutting wheel face (112), wherein at least two measuring modules (151, 154, 157, 160, 163, 503) of the sensor means are configured to record measured values characteristic of the consistency of material excavated at the tunnel face (118) and in that measuring modules (151, 154, 157, 160, 163, 503) arranged on the cutting wheel face (112) are configured to record different types of measured values.
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