Open AccessTentative Design Study of Ballasting Tank for Very Large IMT Unit
Author(s) -
Wang Hui Li
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/787/1/012152
Subject(s) - ballast , engineering , unit (ring theory) , marine engineering , key (lock) , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , computer science , computer security , mathematics education , mathematics
The ballasting tank is one of the key points in the design and construction of immersed tube tunnel. With the development of construction technology and social requirement, the size of IMT unit is becoming bigger and bigger. The design of ballasting tank will be more important in very large IMT unit. This article takes the Shen-Zhong Link IMT project which is under construction as example to express some design principles for ballasting tank. Particularly, the stability of unit during sinking will be emphatically analyzed for arrangement of ballasting tanks.