TY - CHAP A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar T1 - Numerical investigation of the face stability of shallow tunnels in sand T2 - Numerical methods in geotechnical engineering : (NUMGE 2010) : proceedings of the seventh European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Trondheim, Norway, 2 - 4 June 2010 / ed. by Thomas Benz ... Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-0-415-59239-0 SP - 779 EP - 784 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar T1 - Experimental investigations of face stability of shallow tunnels in sand T2 - W(H)YDOC 08 : International Workshop of Young Doctors in Geomechanics : Champs-sur-Marne, Nov. 19 - 21 2008 Y1 - 2008 SP - 61 EP - 64 PB - Ecole des Ponts ParisTech CY - Paris ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar T1 - Experimental and numerical investigation of the face stability of shallow tunnels in sand T2 - Safe tunnelling for the city and environment : proceedings of the World Tunnel Congress 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 23 to 28 September 2009 / organised by International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association ... Y1 - 2009 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Hungarian Tunnelling Association CY - Budapest ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar T1 - Experimentelle Untersuchung des Ortsbrustversagens seichter Tunnel JF - Österreichische Bauwirtschaft Y1 - 2008 IS - Sondernr. SP - 6 EP - 9 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar T1 - Vermittlung wissenschaftlicher Schreibkompetenzen unter Einbeziehung aktueller Forschungsinhalte T2 - Schaufenster Lehre Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar T1 - Experimental investigation of the face stability of shallow tunnels in sand JF - Acta Geotechnica N2 - Various models have been proposed for the prediction of the necessary support pressure at the face of a shallow tunnel. To assess their quality, the collapse of a tunnel face was modelled with small-scale model tests at single gravity. The development of the failure mechanism and the support force at the face in dry sand were investigated. The observed displacement patterns show a negligible influence of overburden on the extent and evolution of the failure zone. The latter is significantly influenced, though, by the initial density of the sand: in dense sand a chimney-wedge-type collapse mechanism developed, which propagated towards the soil surface. Initially, loose sand did not show any discrete collapse mechanism. The necessary support force was neither influenced by the overburden nor the initial density. A comparison with quantitative predictions by several theoretical models showed that the measured necessary support pressure is overestimated by most of the models. Those by Vermeer/Ruse and Léca/Dormieux showed the best agreement to the measurements. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11440-010-0110-7 SN - 1861-1125 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 43 EP - 62 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Giese, S. A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar A1 - Ziegler, M. T1 - Numerische Untersuchung von Schervorgängen mit der Diskrete-Partikel-Methode JF - Bauingenieur : die richtungsweisende Zeitschrift im Bauingenieurswesen ; offizielle Zeitschrift der VDI-Gesellschaft Bautechnik Y1 - 2006 SN - 0005-6650 N1 - Gedruckt in der Bibliothek Bayernallee vorhanden: 13 Z 049-2006 VL - Bd. 81 IS - H. 5 SP - 232 EP - 239 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fellin, Wolfgang A1 - King, Julian A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar A1 - Oberguggenberger, Michael T1 - Uncertainty modelling and sensitivity analysis of tunnel face stability T2 - Safety, reliability and risk of structures, infrastructures and engineering systems : proceedings of the tenth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2009), Osaka, Japan, 13-17 September 2009 / ed.: Hitoshi Furuta ... Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-0-415-47557-0 SP - 112 EP - 114 PB - CRC Pr. CY - Boca Raton, Fla. [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fellin, Wolfgang A1 - King, Julian A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar A1 - Oberguggenberger, Michael T1 - Uncertainty modelling and sensitivity analysis of tunnel face stability JF - Structural safety N2 - This paper proposes an approach to the choice and evaluation of engineering models with the aid of a typical application in geotechnics. An important issue in the construction of shallow tunnels, especially in weak ground conditions, is the tunnel face stability. Various theoretical and numerical models for predicting the necessary support pressure have been put forth in the literature. In this paper, we combine laboratory experiments performed at the University of Innsbruck with current methods of uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for assessing adequacy, predictive power and robustness of the models. The major issues are the handling of the twofold uncertainty of test results and of model predictions as well as the decision about what are the influential input parameters. Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.strusafe.2010.06.001 SN - 0167-4730 VL - 32 IS - 6 SP - 402 EP - 410 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Burger, Ulrich A1 - Kirsch, Ansgar A1 - Marcher, Thomas A1 - Höser, Sebastian T1 - Geologisch-geotechnischer Planungsprozess von Tunnelbauten mit Schwerpunkt tiefliegender Tunnel T2 - Beton-Kalender ; Bd. 103: Unterirdisches Bauen, Grundbau, Eurocode 7 Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-433-03051-6 ; 978-3-433-60335-2 ; 978-3-433-60508-0 ; 3-433-60508-4 SP - 37 EP - 62 PB - Ernst CY - Berlin ER -