Reliability assessment of ultimate limit state of twin caverns

• Main Authors: Zhang, Wengang, Goh, Anthony T. C.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: reliability assessment; ultimate limit state
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80761; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42219
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Construction of a cavern in close proximity to an existing cavern modifies the state of stresses and movements in a zone around the existing cavern, as some degree of interaction between these two caverns generally takes place. This study investigates the interaction of two parallel caverns and the...