Research Article

Effects of Spatially Varying Seismic Ground Motions and Incident Angles on Behavior of Long Tunnels

Table 4

Lateral maximum diameter strain rate of tunnel under multisupport seismic motion.

Incident angleZ = 100 mZ = 300 mZ = 500 mZ = 700 mZ = 900 m

0.022%−0.045%0.033%0.035%0.039%
30°0.075%−0.125%−0.169%−0.169%−0.098%
45°0.111%−0.163%−0.225%−0.225%−0.123%
60°0.141%−0.193%−0.269%−0.269%−0.143%
90°0.170%−0.208%−0.293−0.293%−0.155%