Research Article

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

Table 5

Maximum stresses of tunnel body at different incident angles.

Motion formPrincipal stress30°45°60°90°

Uniform11.6010.859.247.187.45
−11.60−10.58−10.02−8.99−6.81
Multisupport17.7413.9211.298.946.66
−18.84−15.68−13.37−11.16−8.49