Abstract: This paper presents a generic analytical solution for stresses and displacements developed around an arbitrarily shaped underground opening excavated in an elastic soil/rock mass with biaxial in situ stresses. A series of ...

Abstract: A coupled hydromechanical solution to undrained spherical cavity expansion problem in unsaturated soil is proposed with an elastoplastic model for unsaturated soil. The mechanical response and hydraulic behavior of soil ...

Abstract: In this paper, a semianalytical approach is presented to formulate an excavated cavity in Mohr–Coulomb soils subject to biaxial initial stresses. The response of cavity expansion within the plastic region was investigated ...

Abstract: This paper presents an elastoplastic solution for drained expansion of a cylindrical cavity in anisotropic critical-state soils. The large deformation theory and the advanced anisotropic critical-state soil model S-CLAY1, ...