Tunneling & Settlement Monitoring
The Bellevue tunnel was aligned with a major thoroughfare. To monitor possible settlements, GEO-Instruments installed borehole extensometers above the tunnel centerline and arrays of road prisms across the road. Photo shows installation of a road prism.
Borehole extensometers were terminated flush with the surface using a LidLink antenna. Measurements were transmitted wirelessly to a GeoCloud website. This eliminated the need for cable trenches and curbside loggers. A road prism can be seen next to the LidLink antenna.
This AMTS is monitoring road prisms and an UMP (utility monitoring point). Small settlements were detected as the tunnel heading reached the location of each array, but stabilized within two weeks. A Lid-Link antenna for a borehole extensometer (BX) is circled.