Stresses Around a Tunnel with an Arbitrary Cross Section Excavated in Anisotropic Elastic Ground

Abstract

The present paper is concerned with the theoretical determination of stresses and deformations around a tunnel with an arbitrary cross section excavated in anisotropic elastic ground. In the first part are proposed the methods in general for determining these phenomena based on the use of their conformal transformations, and in the second are given the numerical results of computation of various typical cross sections.