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| Author(s): |
Ricardo Adriano Martoni Pereira Gomes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2006-09-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Tarcisio Barreto Celestino;
Antonio Airton Bortolucci;
Roberto Kochen;
Osvaldo Luis Manzoli;
Wilson Sergio Venturini
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| Advisor: | Tarcisio Barreto Celestino |
| Abstract | |
Shotcrete has been more and more used worldwide for tunnel support. This kind of material has the characteristics of starting to act structurally since early ages. Nevertheless, the current processes of support design neglect the development of its properties after some time in connection to the 3D effects of the region where the face of the tunnel is located. The present work relates the procedures adopted in analyzing the influence of some ground-support interaction parameters on the support structure internal forces of a tunnel, not only when shotcrete is used, with its time-dependent properties, but for materials with constant properties as well. Dimensionless solutions are developed for the support thrust and bending moments quantification problem. Most of the numerical simulations performed to reach this purpose were carried out by means of parallel processing techniques. (AU) | |