Computational model for the simulation of the shield tunneling process in cohesive soils

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-44

  Abu Farsakh, Murad Y ^a,b   Voyiadjis, George Z ^a,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Dept of Civ and Environ Eng ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Deformations; Numerical modeling; Soft ground; Tunneling

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

COHESIVE SOILS; EARTH PRESSURE BALANCE SHIELD; SHIELD TUNNELING; SOFT GROUND; THREE DIMENSIONAL DEFORMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADVANCE RATE; COHESIVE SOIL; DEFORMATION; SHIELD; SOFT SOIL; TUNNELING;

EID: 0032928586     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(199901)23:1<23::AID-NAG956>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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