A coupled elastoplastic and visco-plastic damage model for hard clay and its application for the underground gallery excavation

The numerical modelling of the excavation of an underground gallery in hard clay has been discussed in current article. A constitutive model is proposed to describe poromechanical behaviour of the hard clay. The main features of the hard clay observed in laboratory and in-situ experimental investiga...

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Main Authors: Hanbing Bian, Xiaotian Zhang, Jianfu Shao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:Underground Space
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2467967416300320