The support pressure acting on a tunnel face is critical for the stability of the ground during
shield tunnelling. This paper presents a multi-arch model to predict the limit support …

This paper presents a new 3D collapse mechanism to investigate the face stability of a
shallow tunnel embedded in the saturated and multi-layered soils with short-term condition …

The article presents a numerical solution of the spatial elastic-plastic problem of determining
the stability of the tunnel face soils at the intersection of disturbed zones of the soil mass …

This paper conducts a reliability assessment of the tunnel face stability induced by an
adjacent tunnel under incomplete information. The evaluation indicator in this study is the …

The analysis of tunnel face stability is commonly implemented with the assumption that the
soil is dry or fully saturated. However, many practical cases occur in partially saturated soils …

An intense fault-slip rockburst occurred in a deep-buried tunnel excavated by tunnel boring
machine (TBM). After the intense rockburst occurrence, moderate rockburst and mud …

Soil clogging occurred in the early construction stage of Nanchang Metro Line 1, China,
when an earth balance pressure (EPB) shield passed through the argillaceous siltstone with …

The undrained stability of dual circular tunnels buried in spatially random soils is
investigated by imposing the random adaptive finite element limit analysis (RAFELA). The …

Tunnels are generally driving in multilayered soils, and natural soils are well known to have
high variability in strength. However, few attempts have been made to consider both these …

When applying the artificial ground-freezing method in a shield-driven tunnel, the design of
the freezing zone and freezing time is of practical interest. Therefore, the distribution and …