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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2007.23.4.185

Assessment of Tunnel Collapse Load by Closed-Form Analytical Solution and Finite Element Analysis  

Lee, Yong-Joo (Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology (RIST))
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.23, no.4, 2007 , pp. 185-197 More about this Journal
Abstract
Limit analysis of upper and lower bound solutions has been well developed to provide the stability numbers for shallow tunnels in cohesive soil ($c_u$ material), cohesive-frictional soil (c'-$\phi$' material) and cohesionless soil ($\phi$'material). However, an extension of these methods to relatively deep circular tunnels in the cohesionless soil has been explored rarely to date. For this reason, the closed-form analytical solutions including lower bound solution based on the stress discontinuity concept and upper bound solution based on the kinematically admissible failure mechanism were proposed for assessing tunnel collapse load in this study. Consequently, the tunnel collapse load from those solutions was compared with both the finite element analysis and the previous analytical bound solutions and shown to be in good agreement with the FE results, in particular with the FE soil elements located on the horizontal tunnel axis.
Keywords
Closed-form analytical solution; Cohesionless soil; Failure mechanism; Finite element analysis; Limit analysis; Stress discontinuity; Tunnel collapse load;
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