This communication deals with the effect of tunnel face reinforcement on the wall convergence and on the loads in the lining, studied by means of a homogenized anisotropic model for reinforced ground. While the tunneling process is generally handled in a plane ...

Buried tunnels with circular cross section, such as urban undergrounds are very popular in transportation engineering. The seismic behavior of such structures during operation is of importance. There exist different closed form solutions, such as Penzien and ...

In this study, dynamic response of a circular tunnel embedded in a porousmedium and subjected to a moving axisymmetric ring load is investigated. To avoid treating Biot’s dynamic equations directly, two scalar potentials and two vector potentials are introduced ...