Recent advancements in rock cutting and tunnel boring machine (TBM) performance have underscored the importance of optimising cutter design, operational parameters and understanding rock fracture ...

Rock cutting and sawing performance analysis encompasses a multidisciplinary approach that integrates advancements in mechanical engineering, material science, and computational modelling to optimise ...

In the 1970s, US government researchers imagined digging through rock with a nuclear-powered tunneling machine. They thought this machinery could change the world by traveling through the Earth’s ...