Effect of seepage forces on tunnel face stability

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 342-350

  Lee, In Mo ^a   Nam, Seok Woo ^a   Ahn, Jae Hun ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Face stability; Model test; Seepage force; Upper bound solution

Indexed keywords

HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEEPAGE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

TUNNEL FACE STABILITY;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

FLUID FLOW; SEEPAGE; STABILITY; TUNNEL;

FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; SEEPAGE; TUNNEL;

EID: 0038419530     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t02-120     Document Type: Article

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