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Abstract: The construction of urban tunnels is a great and complex challenge in cities with old buildings. The new Santiago Metro Line 3 will cross the city centre and its route will be close to several historic buildings. Most of those buildings are characterized by some level of damage, usually caused by previous seismic activity. This article summarizes the building damage assessment due to the...
Abstract: The new Line 3 of Santiago Metro includes the construction of the University of Chile Station, just beneath the existing track tunnel of Line 1. A reliability study was carried out to assess the probability of failure of tunnel excavation for the new station. The stability analyses were performed using the analytical solutions by Mühlhaus (1985) and by Anagnostou and Kovári (1994). The...