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6.34m-Diameter Earth Pressure Balance Shield

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6.34m-Diameter Earth Pressure Balance Shield

6.34m-Diameter Earth Pressure Balance ShieldWith the diameter of 6.34 meters of EPB shield

Business Section:Major Equipment
Production Place:Shanghai
Production Time:2003
Representative Project:Metro in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Tianjin and Ningbo

The earth pressure balance shield “Pioneer” is the 863rd project of the 10th five year plan in our country, which was constructed by STEC. We developed the first underground shield in China with autonomous intellectual property right in 2003. This shield’s outer diameter is 6.34 meters, and the largest thrust is 35200KN. Its excavating speed reaches to 6 cm/min. In October 2004, this shield was applied to the tunnel construction of Shanghai Metro Line 2’s Gubei Road to Zhongshan park area. In June 2005, the first tunneling was finished. The “Pioneer” created a new record of shield excavation in the world, and set a record of excavating 38.4 meters per day and 566.4 meters per month compared with the fast record of 31.4 meters per day and 531 meters per month at that time. The “Pioneer” reversed the situation that foreign shield ruled the shield technology, and its main technical standards attained the advanced level of foreign shields. Therefore, it acquired many awards such as Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, Chinese Major Creation Award and silver prize of Chinese Industrial Exposition. 22 “Pioneer” were ordered in 2006, boosting the domestic shield market greatly and also achieving quantum leap development of shield in STEC. “Pioneer” has been used to construct metro tunnels in Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Wuhan etc.