The influence of out-of-plane stress on
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M. B. Reed
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Article
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1988
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper considers the excavation of a cylindrical cavity in a uniformly prestressed mass of brittle Mohr-Coulomb rock. Previous plane strain displacement solutions have assumed that the out-of-plane stress remains the intermediate principal stress at all points. It is here shown that when this as