Numerical modelling of damage to masonry buildings due to tunnelling

Accurate assessment of the damage to buildings due to tunnelling in soft ground becomes an important issue when a tunnel is constructed under historic masonry buildings in urban areas. The current two-stage approach in which settlements estimated from a Gaussian curve are applied to a building does...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Gang
Other Authors: Houlsby, G. T.
Published: University of Oxford 1997
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360394