Rock fracture around a highly stressed tunnel and the impact of a thin tunnel liner for ground control

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Wang, C ^a   Tannant, D D ^b  

^a Sons of Gwalia S Cross Operations   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ground control; Numerical modelling; Particle Flow Code; Rock fracture; Spray on liner; Tunnel stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TUNNELS;

FRACTURE PROPAGATIONS; LINERS;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; LINER; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TUNNEL;

EID: 3042738971     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2004.03.118     Document Type: Article

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