Delayed failure at the Messochora tunnel, Greece

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-240

  Kontogianni, V ^a   Papantonopoulos, C ^a   Stiros, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Failure; Greece; Soft ground tunneling; Squeezing; Tunnel convergence; Tunnel monitoring

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; DEFORMATION; DILATOMETERS; EXCAVATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

DELAYED FAILURE; SOFT GROUND TUNNELING; TUNNEL CONVERGENCE; TUNNEL MONITORING; TUNNEL WALLS;

TUNNELS;

CRACK INITIATION; DEFORMATION; DILATOMETERS; EXCAVATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESSES; TUNNELS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

DEFORMATION; FAILURE MECHANISM; GROUND CONDITIONS; TUNNELING; WEAK ROCK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 39749173778     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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