Le Tunnel de base du Montcenis est l'ouvrage principal de la nouvelle liaison ferroviaire Lyon-Turin. Sa construction constitue l'un des grands projets du 21ème siècle. Il s'inscrit dans les corridors ferroviaires européens de transport favorisant la circulation des mar...

In the context of urban extension, the depletion of natural resources for construction constitutes a crucial issue. Specifically, in the field of earthworks, the amounts of materials can be massive and pose the crucial problem of resource shortage. Therefore, the reuse ...

Classical techniques for backfilling of trenches use unbounded materials. Unfortunately, they have always been presenting several drawbacks: difficulty of compaction, noise disturbance and time of implementation... Controlled Low Strength Materials (CLSM) could be a goo...

Les matériaux granulaires traités avec un liant hydraulique présentent un intérêt certain en comblement de tranchées, et notamment pour éviter les problèmes de post-compactage. Dans un grand nombre de cas, ces matériaux doivent toutefois rester faciles à excaver à la pi...

This document has been produced by the World Bank to support the Government of Guatemala as it improves its transport and logistics sector management in pursuit of enhanced country competitiveness. It identifies and defines elements of a National Transport and Logistics...

Closed-form solutions are of great interest for quick and accurate evaluation of stresses and displacements around underground excavations. Based on complex vari- able theory and on the method of conformal mapping, closed-form solutions for stresses and displacements ar...

This report summarizes the motivation, objectives, methodology, results and lessons learned from the design and implementation of the Demonstration Program on Inclusive Heritage-based City Development in India. The development objective of this program is to test an inc...

For African countries looking to sustain and increase their unprecedented growth rates of recent years, the potential of tourism has not been fully recognized as a vital source of economic and development power that can strengthen and expand the continent's economies. W...

While the negative impacts of climate change on urban areas are well-known and widely discussed, its implicit impacts on historic downtowns have not been studied as extensively. In recent years, cultural heritage conservation and valorization have increasingly become dr...

The thermal conductivity of host rocks is an important parameter in the design of deep geological disposal of heat-emitting radioactive waste. Due to bedding, heat transfer in sedimentary rocks is affected by their transversally isotropic structure. In this work, an exp...