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In the vicinity of a tunnel face, the fictitious support pressure represents the support pressure acting on the periphery of the tunnel provided by the rock mass itself. It is an indicator of the self-supporting capacity of the rock mass.This paper aims at solving the fictitious support pressure on a circular tunnel with hydrostatic initial stress field. A numerical procedure for the fictitious support...