Preliminary support design for Ankara subway extension tunnel

Engineering Geology

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 161-172

  Ozsan A ^a   Karpuz, C ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

FEM analysis; Rock mass strength; Subway tunnel; Support design; Weathered dacite

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CORE SAMPLES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORMABILITY; ROCK MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUBWAYS; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHING;

GEOLOGICAL STRENGTH INDEX (GSI); ROCK MASS RATING (RMR);

TUNNELS;

ROCK MASS CLASSIFICATION; SUPPORT; TUNNEL DESIGN; TUNNEL LINING; TUNNELING;

TURKEY;

EID: 0035053918     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(00)00072-7     Document Type: Article

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