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Underground Excavations and Tunnelling

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Underground excavations and tunnelling involve the removal of soil or rock masses from their initial locations. This action reduces and, in some cases (i.e. unlined tunnels), completely removes the initial stresses which existed in the area of tunnelling or excavations, Figure 10.1. Therefore, it may be reasonable to assume that the action of tunnelling and underground excavation can be modelled by the unloading of a cavity from the in-situ stress state.

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Yu, HS. (2000). Underground Excavations and Tunnelling. In: Cavity Expansion Methods in Geomechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9596-4_10

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