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To optimize road tunnel excavation and support design, by considering road tunnel excavation as single bore in the elastic infinite plate and introducing conformal mapping and Cauchy integral, complex variable function solutions were applied to deduce the stress and displacement distributions along the tunnel perimeter with arbitrary cross section, which was subjected to the non-uniform far-field stresses and the supporting pressure. The solutions were implemented in the platform of MATLAB. Then detailed case studies were carried out to discuss the influences of cavity shape of tunnel, cavern span, lateral pressure coefficient and supporting pressure on the stress and displacement distribution along tunnel perimeter. The results show that cavity shape of tunnel influences significantly the stress and displacement distributions within the surrounding rock mass of cavern. Increasing tunnel span will significantly enlarge the crown subsidence, invert upheaval and sidewall convergence after tunnel excavation, which makes the stress distribution and change within surrounding rock more complex. It is more appropriate to utilize the top-heading excavation method for the ground condition with higher horizontal in-situ stress. ©, 2015, Xi'an Highway University. All right reserved.
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China Journal of Highway and Transport
ISSN: 1001-7372
CN: 61-1313/U
Year: 2015
Issue: 10
Volume: 28
Page: 90-97
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