Abstract
In 1991, the city of Barcelona was actively building a new transportation infrastructure to prepare for the Olympic Games of August 1992. An important utility was a 35 km long freeway ring (the “Rondas”) which substantially improved the city traffic in the years to come. The failure described here refers to an auxiliary two-way underground branch which was built to connect a radial highway leaving Barcelona from the north of the city and the Ronda ring. Figure 7.1 shows the crossing of the two main highways (Via Augusta and Ronda de Dalt) and the so-called I-J branch (dashed lines). The failed section is also indicated in the figure.
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Puzrin, A.M., Alonso, E.E., Pinyol, N.M. (2010). Tunnel Excavation Collapse: Borràs Square, Spain. In: Geomechanics of Failures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3531-8_7
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