Plasticity solutions for soil behaviour around contracting cavities and tunnels

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1245-1279

  Yu, H S ^b   Rowe, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Critical state models; Normally and overconsolidated clays; Plasticity; Tunnelling; Unloading of cavities

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN; STRESSES; TUNNELS;

CRITICAL STATE MODELS; CYLINDRICAL CAVITY MODEL; MOHR-COULOMB MODEL; SPHERICAL CAVITY CONTRACTION THEORY;

SOIL MECHANICS;

CRITICAL STATE; EXCAVATION; IN SITU STRESS; SOIL DYNAMICS; TUNNELING;

EID: 0033213532     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9853(199910)23:12<1245::AID-NAG30>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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