Prediction of stresses and strains around model tunnels with adjacent embedded walls in overconsolidated clay

Computers and Geotechnics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1049-1057

  Bilotta, Emilio ^a   Stallebrass, Sarah E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constitutive models; Numerical analysis; Overconsolidated soil; Tunnelling

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GROUND MOVEMENT; KINEMATIC HARDENING; KINEMATIC HARDENING MODEL; MODEL TUNNEL; MODIFIED CAM CLAY; MODIFIED CAM-CLAY MODEL; OVERCONSOLIDATED CLAYS; OVERCONSOLIDATED SOIL; OVERCONSOLIDATED SOILS; PHYSICAL MODEL TEST; STATE BOUNDARY SURFACE; TUNNEL STABILITY; TUNNELLING;

CAMS; CLAY MINERALS; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; HARDENING; KINEMATICS; SOILS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); TUNNELS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CAM-CLAY MODEL; CLAY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAILURE MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OVERCONSOLIDATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PREDICTION; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TUNNEL DESIGN; TUNNELING;

EID: 67349228455     PISSN: 0266352X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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