Research Article

Energy Release Analysis of a Severe Rockburst in a Headrace Tunnel Crossing a Tectonic Stress Zone

Table 4

Mean values of stress components in the local coordinate system (measurement results at chainage 10 + 938).


−83.8−44.7−47.8−2.0−26.012.7

Stress positive-negative regularity follows linear elastic mechanics. Positive normal stress is tensile stress, and negative is compressive stress. The direction of local coordinate is shown in Figure 5.