CLIENT
Ognina s.c.a r.l.
LOCATION
City of Catania – Italy
In Situ Tests Division Metro Srl carried out monitoring activities in the town of Catania during doubling works of Catania Ognina-Catania C.le Railway.
Activities included:
- Installation of instrumentation for monitoring deformations of civil structures during the tunnel excavation
- Pressure and deformation measurements during the tunnel construction
- Collection, elaboration, presentation and interpretation of data acquired with instrumentation installed for control of the civil structures during excavation works
- Static load testing on the top of Europa Artificial Tunnel and on the deck of Ulisse Underpass.
Specific activities were performed in order to evaluate the effects of vibrations induced by the excavation of Ognina Tunnel with explosive in massive, very hard and heterogeneous rocky body constituted by lava flows of Etna Volcano.