Rotational Failure Mechanism for Face Stability of Circular Shield Tunnels in Frictional Soils

Face stability analyses of shield-driven tunnels are often carried out to determine the required support pressure on the tunnel face. Although various three-dimensional mechanisms have been proposed for circular faces of tunnels in frictional and/or cohesive soils to obtain the limit support pressur...

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Main Authors: Yuan Zhou, Yuming Zhu, Shumao Wang, Hu Wang, Zhengxing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:Advances in Civil Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7167802