Soft ground tunnelling in urban areas is more frequently being performed using the shield
method. Due to its great influence on both ground settlement and construction safety, face …

In this paper the problem of dealing with scarce information in a reliability analysis is
investigated in a geotechnical engineering context. Common probabilistic methods are …

This study investigates the response of piled buildings to shield tunnelling in soft ground
based on both a case history and numerical modelling. The findings indicate that building …

Reliability assessment in presence of epistemic uncertainty leads to consider the failure
probability as a quantity depending on the state of knowledge about uncertain input …

Catastrophic tunnel collapses usually start with the partial failure of tunnel linings. However,
research on the mechanism of such progressive collapses is limited. Among such collapses …

The tunnel collapse, a large deformation of surrounding rock, water and mud inrush are the
main geological disasters in the process of tunnel construction. In order to control the above …

The support pressure at the tunnel face of earth pressure balance (EPB) shield machines is
usually assumed to be uniform from the crown to the invert, which is a notable simplification …

This study proposes an improved model for face stability analysis with a dual-failure-
mechanism based on the limit equilibrium method. The failure mechanisms consist of …

The capsule expansion technique (CET) is a novel active measure to control the
deformation of subsurface structures induced by underground engineering construction …

A semianalytical solution to determine the minimum safety thickness of the rock resisting
water inrush from filling-type karst caves was investigated. Mechanical analyses of the filling …