Tunnelling

Tunnelling works can be a significant cause of settlement damage to structures. Work in this area is motivated principally by current and future projects involving tunnelling in urban areas. In particular the development of ground movements around tunnels is of interest.

Several publications on the subject are listed here, including a departmental report collecting together recent conference papers on research into tunnelling at Oxford.

Current projects include development of a 3-D finite element model of settlement damage to masonry structures, improvement and extension of this model, and verification and use of the model.