Elastic Stress and Plastic Zone Distributions around a Deeply Buried Tunnel under the Nonhydrostatic Pressure

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Figure 7: Elastic Stress and Plastic Zone Distributions around a Deeply Buried Tunnel under the Nonhydrostatic Pressure 