Numerical investigation on the effect of cutterhead shapes on tunnel face stability

Bassam Mohammed Al-Washali a d, Kai Yao a b, Umashankaran Satchithananthan a, Zhanyong Yao a, Abdullah M. Tawfek a e, Yutao Pan c, Michael Beer f g h

a    School of Qilu Transportation, Shandong University, Jinan 250002, China

b    Shenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen 518057, China

c    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway

d    Faculty of Engineering, Thamar University, Thamar 87246, Yemen

e    Sanaa University, Sanaa 12544, Yemen

f    Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universitt Hannover, Hannover 30167, Germany

g    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GH, UK

h    International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure & International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Received 2 December 2024, Revised 25 January 2025, Accepted 1 April 2025, Available online 24 April 2025, Version of Record 24 April 2025.

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