Distinct Element Modeling of the Shimizu Tunnel No.3 in Japan

In the present research a highway twin tunnel project completed in Japan in 1998 is used as a case study to verify results of numerical analyses with measurement data. Each of the tunnels had approximately 1.1 km of length. For this project a wide geometry of approximately 18.0 m was selected by the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vardakos, Sotirios
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36153
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12152003-110144/