Re-alignment of railway track trebovice – Rudoltice (Czech Republic), tunnel or open cut, analysis of geotechnical hazards

Track section Trebovice – Rudoltice on the border between Bohemia and Moravia and European watershed is one of the most complicated sections in Czech republic from the geotechnical point of view. Main difficulties in that area result from expansive clays with high plasticity. Swelling of these clays caused destruction of...