undertaken with sup-port from National Nature Science Foundation of China(No.51009054);Jiangsu Province Nature Science Founda-tion of China(No.bk2010513);China funding Science and Technology Project of POWERCHINA Huadong Engi-neering Corporation Limited(SD2013-10);the Water Resource Science and Technology Innovation Program of Guangdong Province(2015-17);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(D2171820);Major project research funding of the Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education of China(No.109077).
The objective of this study is to investigate the 3D behavior characteristics of an excavation supported by an innovative prestressed support(IPS)earth retention system.A numerical simulation was conducted in order to...