The cutter ring breakage as a cutter failure mode in shield tunnel construction is more likely to occur in the centre zone of cutterhead. Given the inconsistence of this phenomenon with the linear cutting theory, the present paper suggests the use of the circular cutting theory to explain the cutter ring breakage and find the correlation between the unbalanced side force and cutter ring breakag…
Proceedings of sessions of GeoShanghai 2010, held in Shanghai, China, June 3-5, 2010. Hosted by Tongji University, China; Shanghai Society of Civil Engineering, China; Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, China. In cooperation with Alaska University Transportation Center, USA; Geo-Institute of ASCE, USA; Deep Foundation Institute, USA; East China Architectural Des…
Proceedings of the 9th Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia Conference, Volume 1, pp. 384-389