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Abstract: Currently in South Korea, various social problems are predicted due to aging of the major national structures, and tunnels are under the same situations which are a performance decline, a sudden increase of maintenance cost and risk. The existing evaluation method of tunnels in South Korea has a lot of limitations to be considered of tunnels’ various performances (e.g. durability, usability and...
Abstract: In this paper, seismic performance evaluations were conducted to the 91 rapid-transit railway tunnels which were designed before the seismic design criteria of tunnel was established. In consideration of the fact that all the tunnels are in operation, 'The method of seismic performance evaluations for the existing tunnel' was applied, and staged evaluations were done which consist of a...