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Face Stability Analysis of Shield Tunnels in Homogeneous Soil Overlaid by Multilayered Cohesive-Frictional Soils

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  • Kaihang Han
  • Chengping Zhang
  • Wei Li
  • Caixia Guo

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In order to better interpret failure features of the failure of soil in front of tunnel face, a new three-dimensional failure mechanism is proposed to analyze the limit support pressure of the tunnel face in multilayered cohesive-frictional soils. The new failure mechanism is composed of two truncated cones that represent the shear failure band and a distributed force acting on the truncated cones that represents the pressure arch effect. By introducing the concept of Terzaghi earth pressure theory, approximation of limit support pressures is calculated using the limit analysis methods. Then the limit support pressures obtained from the new failure mechanism and the existing approaches are compared, which show that the results obtained from the new mechanism in this paper provide relatively satisfactory results.

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  • Kaihang Han & Chengping Zhang & Wei Li & Caixia Guo, 2016. "Face Stability Analysis of Shield Tunnels in Homogeneous Soil Overlaid by Multilayered Cohesive-Frictional Soils," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2016, pages 1-9, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:1378274
    DOI: 10.1155/2016/1378274
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