ISSN:
0363-9061
Keywords:
elasticity
;
tunnel
;
complex variables
;
Engineering
;
Civil and Mechanical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying
,
Geosciences
Notes:
An analytical solution is presented of problems for an elastic half-plane with a circular tunnel, which undergoes a certain given deformation. The solution uses complex variables, with a conformal mapping onto a circular ring. The coefficients in the Laurent series expansion of the stress functions are determined by a combination of analytical and numerical computations. As an example the case of a uniform radial displacement of the tunnel boundary is considered in some detail. It appears that a uniform radial displacement is accompanied by a downward displacement of the tunnel as a whole. This phenomenon also means that the distribution of the apparent spring constant is strongly non-uniform. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Additional Material:
7 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
