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Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering pp 2796–2823Cite as

Seismic Design of Tunnels

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Cut-and-cover structures; Earthquakes; Free-field deformations; Immersed-tube tunnels; Nonlinear response; Racking; Soil-structure interaction; Tunnels

Introduction

The complete enclosure in soil or rock makes their seismic behavior different than that of aboveground structures or superstructures. Underground structure seismic response is constrained by seismic response of the surrounding soil and cannot experience free vibrations as is the case for aboveground structures. This section focuses on the seismic analysis and design of large linear underground structures commonly used for metro structures, highway tunnels, and large water/sewage transportation ducts in urban areas and can be grouped into three broad categories: (1) bored or mined tunnels, (2) cut-and-cover tunnels, and (3) immersed tunnels (Fig. 1).

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Typical cross sections of underground structures

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2230c Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA

    Youssef M. A. Hashash

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, 61801, IL, USA

    Maria Ines Romero-Arduz

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Hashash, Y.M.A., Romero-Arduz, M.I. (2015). Seismic Design of Tunnels. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_1

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