New Civil Engineer
Alan Dyke
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The geotechnics of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
1-May-2002
It is fortuitous that the challenge to create a 21st century high-speed railway in the crowded south-east corner of England has coincided with geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering maturing as an engineering science. Major construction projects provide the environment in which technological innovation can be explored and implemented, to the benefit of the whole industry.








