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The feasibility of this tunnel deformation monitoring method is carefully examined with various probe angles, distances, and surrounding temperature variations. The results indicate that high accuracy can be achieved with different coefficients for various probe angles and sensor distances, as well as temperatures. In addition, a physical tunnel model was fabricated to verify the new processing algorithm of the RUI approach for a wireless tunnel deformation sensing system. The test results reveal that average measurement errors decreased from 7% to 3.75% using the RUI approach. 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