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Tunnel Face Stability & New CPT Applications - Geo-Engineering

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List of SymbolsGeneralccohesionc u undrained shear strengthd 10 , d 50 sieve opening at which 10 and 50 mass% of material passes sieve resp.Eelasticity or Young’s modulusgacceleration of gravityihydraulic gradienti 0stagnation gradientkpermeabilityK, K y coefficient of horizontal effective stressK a , K 0 , K p coefficients of active, neutral and passive horizontal effective stressm v compressibility modulusnporosityppore water pressureq u unconfined compressive strengthttimevvelocityzvertical coordinateβγγ ′γ dry , γ satγ wϕ̺σσ ′τψcompressibility of watersoil volumetric weighteffective soil volumetric weightdry and saturated soil volumetric weight resp.water volumetric weightangle of internal friction,hydraulic headdensitytotal stresseffective stressyield stressangle of dilatancy× h horizontal component× v vertical component× ′ effective componentxi

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