Lecture Titled: Recent Developments in Soft Ground Tunnelling
Prof. Sugimoto is currently a Professor in the Department of civil Engineering at the Nagaoka University of Technology in Japan; he is the Head of the Graduate School in Engineering and assistant to the President of that University. Prof. Sugimoto has an active research centre on practice oriented research in all kinds of tunneling and in particular shield tunneling. Among the vast professional activities in tunneling, Prof. Sugimoto was : an active member of the technical committee on tunnel design standard for shield tunneling for the Railway Technical Research Institute in Japan; a member of the Technical committee on tunnel design standard for mountain tunneling in urban areas; a member of the Technical committee of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE) on standard segments for shield tunneling; Chairman, Technical committee on construction loads during shield tunneling, JSCE.
Prof. Sugimoto was an active member of TC 28 on tunneling of ISSMGE. He has carried out extensive research on shield tunneling including: Evaluation of soil properties based on the in-situ data of the shield driven method; modeling of load acting on shield; shield behavior using 3-D shield simulator; development on ground reaction curve for shield tunneling; ground behavior using 4-centered slurry shield driving method; survey system on shield behavior during excavation; Influence of grout material in shield tail on shield tunneling perform; simulation of shield tunneling behavior along a curved alignment in a multilayered ground; development of kinematic shield model; pipe jacking studies.
Prof. Sugimoto is a member of the editorial committee of several journals including Journal of Tunneling Engineering; Soils & Foundations; Chairman, Editorial board for “Journal of Tunnel engineering; Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. A member of several geotechnical and tunnel engineering societies, Prof. Sugimoto has lectured very widely in Asia, Europe and North America.
Prof. Sugimoto is currently a Professor in the Department of civil Engineering at the Nagaoka University of Technology in Japan; he is the Head of the Graduate School in Engineering and assistant to the President of that University. Prof. Sugimoto has an active research centre on practice oriented research in all kinds of tunneling and in particular shield tunneling. Among the vast professional activities in tunneling, Prof. Sugimoto was an active member of the technical committee on tunnel design standard for shield tunneling for the Railway Technical Research Institute in Japan; a member of the Technical committee on tunnel design standard for mountain tunneling in urban areas; a member of the Technical committee of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE) on standard segments for shield tunneling; Chairman, Technical committee on construction loads during shield tunneling, JSCE.
Prof. Sugimoto was an active member of TC 28 on tunneling of ISSMGE. He has carried out extensive research on shield tunneling including: Evaluation of soil properties based on the in-situ data of the shield driven method; modeling of load acting on shield; shield behavior using 3-D shield simulator; development on ground reaction curve for shield tunneling; ground behavior using 4-centered slurry shield driving method; survey system on shield behavior during excavation; Influence of grout material in shield tail on shield tunneling perform; simulation of shield tunneling behavior along a curved alignment in a multilayered ground; development of kinematic shield model; pipe jacking studies.
Prof. Sugimoto is a member of the editorial committee of several journals including Journal of Tunneling Engineering; Soils & Foundations; Chairman, Editorial board for “Journal of Tunnel engineering; Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. A member of several geotechnical and tunnel engineering societies, Prof. Sugimoto has lectured very widely in Asia, Europe and North America.
