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Abstract: Model tests were conducted to examine the load transfer and the aching effects on the behavior of the ground around the tunnel due to the phased excavation order at the tunnel face. Tests were conducted in the trapdoor tests apparatus developed by Terzaghi(1946) for 16 cases with different overburdens, which were 0.5D, 1.0D, 1.5D, 2.0D respectively by changing aspects of differential...