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Terzaghi, based on graphical methods, introduced the concept of the deformation ellipse as a tool to understand and visualize the deformation of tunnel sections after their excavation, originally assumed as perfect circles. The deformation ellipse gave the opportunity to pass from a set of displacement data expressing the convergence of a tunnel section in a complicated and occasionally mutually inconsistent...
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