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Conventional stability assessment of underground tunnels and caverns involves the determination of a factor of safety in which failure is assumed to occur when the load (stress) of the system exceeds the resistance. It is widely recognized that a deterministic analysis of the factor of safety gives only a partial representation of the true margin of safety, since the uncertainties in the design parameters...
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