Abstract—In order to prevent encountering unpredictable factors, geotechnical engineers always conduct numerical analysis for braced excavation design. Simulation work in advance can predict the response of subsequent excavation and thus will be designed to increase the security coefficient of construction. The parameters that are considered include geological conditions, soil properties, soil ...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the influence of the constitutive model for shotcrete on the predicted displacements and stresses in shotcrete shells of deep tunnels. Previously proposed shotcrete models as well as a new extended damage plasticity model for shotcrete are evaluated in the context of 2D finite element simulations of the excavation of a stretch of a deep tunnel by m...

Stability of the vertical excavation had been examined using finite element method for a different depth of excavation while structural static and dynamic load with worst possible moment criteria .The critical depth had been examined based on finite element method value of two dimensional interface stresses, ignoring the third dimension stresses, were verified experimentally for an exact analys...

Deep excavation supported by vertical retaining walls together with strutting system is commonly used in Singapore for the construction of underground infrastructure. In this paper, a series numerical scenarios simulated PLAXIS software are carried out to study influence different design parameters such as pre-auger loosening effect, embedded depth wall into stiff soil layer, and elastic modulu...

PURPOSE To report the clinical findings of 2 patients with focal choroidal excavation in the macula detected by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS Three eyes of 2 patients with a focal macular choroidal excavation detected by SD-OCT were studied. The eyes were examined by fundus autofluorescence (FAF), fluorescein angiography, fundus-related microperimetry, and mul...

among various practical measures used for restriction of the ground surface settlement in such tunnels driven in soft ground, selection of an appropriate excavation method plays a significant role. in this paper, employing suggested diagram by yu & chern, corresponding values of niayesh tunnel has been inserted into the diagram. later, two excavation methods namely: central diaphragm and si...