uFace

This app is just for Educational purposes developed during my Master Course in Tunnel Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, May 2019.

It is a new approach of closed analytical solution to evaluate radial displacements for deep tunnels in cohesive soils, considering face reinforcement and time influence.

It includes three calculation tabs, as per below:

1) unreinforced tunnel front response (undrained)

2) time influence on unreinforced tunnel front response

3) reinforced tunnel front response (undrained)

I might work on some improvements over time but no immediate action is expected at this moment.

Suggestions are very welcome, drop me an email :)

General References are:

Journal paper

di Prisco C., Flessati L., Frigerio G., Lunardi P (2018). A numerical exercise for the definition under undrained conditions of the deep tunnel front characteristic curve. Acta

Geotechnica. 13 (3) 635–649

di Prisco, C., Flessati, L. Frigerio, G., Castellanza, R., Caruso, M., Galli, A., Lunardi, P. (2018) Experimental investigation of the time-dependent response of unreinforced and

reinforced tunnel faces in cohesive soils. Acta Geotechnica. 13(3) 651-670

Lattanzi, A., di Prisco, C. & Flessati, L. (2018) Simulazione numerica del processo di consolidazione durante lo scavo di gallerie profonde in materiali coesivi e influenza del

tempo di scavo sulla curva caratteristica del fronte. Gallerie e Grandi Opere Sotterranee, 128

di Prisco, C., Flessati, L. (2019) A numerical tool for estimating deep tunnel front displacements: the role of the excavation rate in cohesive soils. Under review

di Prisco, C., Flessati, L., Porta, D. (2019) Deep tunnel fronts in cohesive soils under undrained conditions: a displacement-based approach for the design of fibreglass

reinforcements. Under review