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Probabilistic tunnel face stability analysis: A comparison between LEM and LAM

  • Pan, Qiujing (Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University) ;
  • Chen, Zhiyu (Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University) ;
  • Wu, Yimin (Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University) ;
  • Dias, Daniel (Laboratory 3SR, Grenoble Alpes University) ;
  • Oreste, Pierpaolo (Department of Environmental, Land and Infrastructural Engineering)
  • Received : 2019.06.20
  • Accepted : 2021.02.06
  • Published : 2021.02.25
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Abstract

It is a key issue in the tunnel design to evaluate the stability of the excavation face. Two efficient analytical models in the context of the limit equilibrium method (LEM) and the limit analysis method (LAM) are used to carry out the deterministic calculations of the safety factor. The safety factor obtained by these two models agrees well with that provided by the numerical modelling by FLAC 3D, but consuming less time. A simple probabilistic approach based on the Mote-Carlo Simulation technique which can quickly calculate the probability distribution of the safety factor was used to perform the probabilistic analysis on the tunnel face stability. Both the cumulative probabilistic distribution and the probability density function in terms of the safety factor were obtained. The obtained results show the effectiveness of this probabilistic approach in the tunnel design.

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