ABSTRACT
The test described in this paper was carried out in the Schofield Center at the University of Cambridge. Tests were carried out in a rectangular aluminum box with dimensions of 180 mm × 790 mm × 450 mm. Figure 1 shows the experimental
1 INTRODUCTION
Though field instrumentation gives the most authoritative data of ground movements due to deep excavations, these data are usually focused only on the lateral displacement of the wall and the subsidence of the retained soil. Overall deformation mechanisms-essential to the better understanding of excavation effects-may not be clear. Furthermore, field observations vary with the unknown soil profile, and are a strong function of the possibly variable construction sequence. This often makes correlation and comparison difficult, and excludes the possibility of exactly repeating any given event.
