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Seismic Design and Analysis: Underground Expertise

Performance-based seismic design for tunnels, shafts and buried infrastructure.

Seismic Design and Analysis: Underground Expertise

Underground structures behave differently in earthquakes than their surface counterparts.

We walk through ground strain, flexible joint behaviour, portal effects and the analytical approaches that let a tunnel keep functioning after a major event.

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