Predictive models of ultimate and serviceability performances for underground twin caverns

• Main Authors: Zhang, Wengang, Goh, Anthony Teck Chee
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: ultimate and serviceability performances; influence factor
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81642; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40907
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The construction of a new cavern modifies the state of stresses and displacements in a zone around the existing cavern. For multiple caverns, the size of this influence zone depends on the ground type, the in situ stress, the cavern span and shape, the width of the pillar separating the caverns, and...