- •Part I: Shaft Sinking and Drifting
- •1.1. Remember the following words.
- •1.6. Translate paragraph 5 and 6 from the text above in writing using a dictionary.
- •1.7. Answer the following questions.
- •1.8. Match the terms and their definitions.
- •1.9. Give a short summary of the text using the following phrases:
- •1.10. Reproduce the dialogue.
- •2.2. Find in the text given below English equivalents to the Russian phrases.
- •2.3. Find pairs of antonyms.
- •2.4. Read and choose the proper title to the text given below.
- •2.10 Read and choose the proper title to the text given below.
- •2.11 Complete the sentences with some suitable parts.
- •2.12 Match the terms and their definitions.
- •2.13 Read and memorize the words.
- •2.15. Analyze and translate the derivatives.
- •2.16. Read and choose the proper title to the text given below.
- •2.17. Translate into English.
- •2.18. Translate in writing 1 and 2 from the text given above.
- •3.1. Read and memorize the words.
- •Explosives. Historical Note
- •3.7. Answer the questions to the text.
- •3.8. Read and memorize the words.
- •3.9. Read the text “Commercial Explosives” and answer the following questions.
- •Commercial Explosives
- •3.10. Translate in writing the text given below. If necessary use a dictionary. Storing and Handling Explosives
- •3.11. Reproduce the dialogue.
- •Part II: Tunneling
- •1.1. Read and try to memorize the words.
- •1.2. Read and recognize the following international words.
- •1.3. Read and translate the following word combinations.
- •1.4. Read the text “Tunnel Basic” and answer the following questions.
- •Tunnel Basic
- •1.5 Look at Figure II and try to speak about forces interacting to produce equilibrium on a tunnel.
- •1.6 Look through the text once again, find sentences with the Infinitive and translate them.
- •1.7. Read the text “Major Types of Tunnels” and find the answers to the following questions.
- •Major Types of Tunnels
- •1.8. Look through the text once again and complete the table. Discuss the results you have obtained with your group-mates. Types of tunnels
- •1.9. Match English and Russian phrases. Write down your answers.
- •From the history of tunneling
- •Milestones in the history of tunneling
- •1.14. Summarize the text given above using expressions (page 67).
- •1.15. Study the text “Tools and Techniques” and complete the table.
- •Tools and Techniques
- •1.16. Are the following statements false or true? Write down your answers.
- •1.17. Match the words in a with their synonyms in b. Write down your answers.
- •Holland Tunnel
- •Inside a Holland Tunnel ventilation tower Underground Canal
- •Thames Tunnel
- •2.1. Read and try to memorize the words and word-combinations.
- •2.2. Read and translate the following word combinations.
- •2.3. Study the text “Tunnel Planning”. Try to understand as much information as you can. Tunnel Planning
- •2.4. Change the form of the word so that it could be filled in the blank space in the sentence.
- •2.5. Write a short summary of the text you have read using the following as a plan.
- •2.6. Discuss with your group-mates the process of a tunnel planning. The following phrases will help you.
- •2.7. Before reading the text “Types of Tunnels and Construction Methods” study the table and say what construction methods are used in each of the three environments. Make use of the Model.
- •Drilling and blasting (d&b) method
- •Natm New Austrian Tunneling Method (natm)
- •2.13. Translate the following text in written form with a dictionary. Try to manage within 15 minutes. Tunnel Boring Machine (tbm) method
- •2.14. Match the words in a with their synonyms in b. Write down the answers.
- •2.15. Match the words in a with their antonyms in b. Write down the answers.
- •2.16. Click here to watch the video how tbm works in hard rock:
- •What is trenchless technology?
- •2.18. Skim the text once again and fill in the table. Discuss the results you have obtained with your group-mates.
- •2.19. Click here to watch the video about how trenchless piper replacement technology works.
- •2.20. Translate the following text in written form with a dictionary. Try to manage within 15 minutes. Shallow-buried Tunnel or Soft Soil Tunnel
- •2.21. Read and summarize the text “Underwater Tunnel” using expressions (page 67). Underwater Tunnel
- •Immersed-tube method
- •2.22. Look through the text once again and find sentences with Participle I and Participle II. Translate these sentences.
- •2.23. Look at the picture, think and organize the procedure of underwater tunnel construction in order.
- •3.1. Read and try to memorize the words.
- •3.2. Read and translate the following word combinations.
- •3.3. Read the text “Tunnel Construction along the Road Adler – Krasnaya Polyana” and complite the table under it. Tunnel Construction along the Road Adler – Krasnaya Polyana
- •Tunnels Construction
- •3D model of the Tunnel system1
- •Severomuysky Tunnel
- •3.8. Match the words in a with their synonyms in b. Write down the answers.
- •3.9. Read the text “Gotthard Base Tunnel” and give its summary using expressions (page 67). Gotthard Base Tunnel (gbt)
- •3.9. Read the text “Miracle under the Alps” and write down the most interesting facts for you. Discuss the results you have obtained with your group-mates. Miracle under the Alps
- •3.9. Click here to watch photos from the construction site of the gbt.
- •3.10. Click here to watch video about the gbt. Speak about your impression about this project.
- •4.1. Read and try to memorize the words.
- •4.2. Read and translate the following word combinations.
- •4.3. Translate the text “The future of tunnels” in written form with a dictionary. Try to manage within 25 minutes. The future of tunnels
- •Tunnel planned between Russia and usa
- •4.8. Look at the picture and render suggested information from Russian into English.
- •4.9. Click here to watch the video about tbMs which will be able to construct a tunnel under the Bering Strait:
3.7. Answer the questions to the text.
1. What did men do at a time when the use of explosives for blasting was unknown?
2. How many people were needed to secure 3 tons of silver per year from the Rio Tinto mine?
3. How many years did the work of 30,000 labourers require to drive a 3,5 miles long tunnel?
4. How many men and years would it take to drive such a tunnel using modern methods and explosives?
5. What was the rate of driving the Cascade tunnel?
3.8. Read and memorize the words.
acid |
n |
кислота |
charcoal |
n |
древесный уголь |
combustion |
n |
горение, воспламенение |
convert |
v |
превращать |
grain |
n |
зерно; fine grain – мелкое зерно, coarse grain – крупное зерно |
gun-cotton |
n |
пироксилин |
gunpowder |
n |
порох |
cap |
n |
капсюль-детонатор, воспламенитель |
exert |
v |
оказывать влияние |
oxygen |
n |
кислород |
potassium |
n |
калий |
powder |
n |
порох, пыль |
substance |
n |
вещество |
sodium |
n |
натрий |
sulfur |
n |
сера |
volume |
n |
объем |
3.9. Read the text “Commercial Explosives” and answer the following questions.
1. What materials supply oxygen for combustion and explosion? (1)
2. What mixture makes dynamite? (2)
3. What classes are explosives separated into? (4)
4. Is the black powder used in blasting at present? (5)
5. What explosive was named after its inventor? (7)
6. When was nitroglycerine discovered? (9)
7. Is nitroglycerine used in mining operations? (10)
8. Where is it used? (10)
Commercial Explosives
1. Oxygen for combustion or explosion can be supplied by substances other than air. Materials widely used for this purpose are sodium nitrate and ammonium nitrate. If sodium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur are mixed in the proper proportions, a mechanical mixture called black power is formed. When confined and ignited, the power explodes and produces hot gases of sufficient volume to exert a strong pressure against the surrounding material.
2. If substances like cotton, starch or glycerin are treated with nitric acid, the resulting products are called nitrocellulose (guncotton), nitrostarch and nitroglycerin. By such chemical processes materials are converted into more powerful explosives than simple gunpowder. Nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose are also mixed with other substances to make dynamite.
3. It has been found that alcohol acting on nitric acid solutions of such metals as copper, silver and mercury forms powerful and very sensitive explosives called fulminates. Fulminate of mercury is largely used in caps as promers or detonators for firing dynamites and other high explosives. Lead hydro nitride (or lead aside) and PETN are used for the same purpose.
4. Explosives are separated into two general classes, low and high. Low explosives like black powder leave about half their volume as a solid residue after explosion and produce a volume of gases that exerts a slow pushing effect on the confining material because of the relatively low rate at which they are generated. High explosives, like nitroglycerin or dynamites, are almost completely gasified when properly initiated and exert a strong shattering effect on the confining walls because of the rapid generation of the gases. The full power of a high explosive may not be realized unless he explosive is properly detonated.
5. Black Powder. The black powder (not commonly used in blasting work at present) is composed of sodium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur in the proportions of about 72, 16 and 12. Because of its low cost, it has a wider sale that blasting powder made with potassium nitrate instead of sodium nitrate. Sodium nitrate has the disadvantage of picking up water, or deliquescing. Powders made from potassium nitrate do not have this disadvantage: consequently they have better keeping qualities. In the manufacture of these black powers, the different ingredients – after being reduced to a fine power – are all ground together while moistened with water. The material is then pressed into cakes which are broken into grains, dried and screened into various sizes ranging from CCC for the coarsest size and FFFF for the finest size.
6. To secure the best results from black powder a hole should be loaded with only one size of grain; then they will all burn at the same speed. The speed with which an explosion will travel along a column of black powder is about 1500 ft. / sec.
7. Judson Powder. This type of explosive, named after its inventor but sold under different trade names, is more powerful than black powder. It is made from a form of black powder in which hard, porous grains are coated with nitroglycerin. These powders are manufactured in several grades containing 50 % of nitroglycerin.
8. The rate of detonation of Judson powder containing 5 % nitroglycerin is some 3300 ft. / sec., or over twice the speed of black powder; the rate of 20 % nitroglycerin is about 8700 ft. / sec. They are not sold to any great extent because the lower grades of dynamite are as effective in their action.
9. Nitroglycerin. This explosive was discovered by Sobrero in 1847 in a laboratory in Paris, but Alfred Nobel in 1863 was the first to manufacture it on a commercial scale. Nitroglycerin is made by mixing sulfuric acid and nitric acid in a steel talk and then adding glycerin. The sulfuric acid takes no chemical part in the reaction but absorbs the water present. To keep the temperature of the reaction within a safe limit, the tank is water jacketed, and coils of lead pipe through which cooling water is circulated are placed inside tank. The nitroglycerin is washed several times with cold water and once with caustic soda to destroy any remaining trace of acid, which affects its keeping qualities.
10. Nitroglycerine is insoluble in water and is poisonous either when in contact with the skin or when breathed as a vapour. It usually produces a violent headache. Ordinary nitroglycerin freezes or becomes crystalline at from 40 to 460 F., but in a recently discovered form it does not freeze even in usual winter temperatures. Being a liquid, nitroglycerin is especially dangerous to handle, since it will leak through a hole in its container. It explodes when heated to about 3920 F. It can also be exploded by a violent blow or shock. Although not employed for this purpose extensively at present, its great shattering effect has made it especially suitable for “shooting” oil wells. Because of its sensitiveness to shock, liquid nitroglycerin is dangerous to transport and unsuitable for use in mining and quarrying operations.