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Designing an Underground Structure with STAAD Dr. Mukti L. Das Principal Engineer Bechtel Power Corporation Frederick, MD 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to share the author’s experience of STAAD that was used to solve an important underground structure in the Boston Central Artery, popularly known as Big Dig Project. As an independent consultant, the author was involved in investigating the design adequacy of a section of the underground transit system as shown in Figure 1. 2. Development of STAAD Model Starting from the top, there is a varying depth of soil cover followed by the top concrete slab of the tunnel. There are two viaduct columns directly supported on the concrete slab. The second column is on the left of the one that is shown on the upper left corner of Figure 1 and is not shown. This sketch also shows 10’ wide segmented T-shape slurry wall with 10’ wide flange facing outside at regular interval. The bottoms of these concrete walls extend into the bed rock. At the top, these segmented slurry wall strips support T-shape slurry walls with wider flange facing outside and budding to each other along the length of the tunnel forming its wall. These wider T-shape walls with web protruding inside the tunnel resist the earth pressure. There are concrete beams connecting two tunnel walls. These connecting beams are shown as small rectangles just under the bottom slab of the tunnel. The train rails are supported on this bottom slab. Figure 1: Longitudinal view of a section of the tunnel A finite element model of the tunnel section left of and including the viaduct column shown in Figure 1 was developed with STAAD. The T-shape slurry walls were modeled as BEAM members as they were not a monolithic wall. The top and bottom slabs were modeled as finite element mesh