scholarly journals Hydromechanical Simulation of Tunnel Excavation in Rock Considering a Nearby Karst Cave

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Huiling Zhao ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Xupeng Yao
Keyword(s):  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Tunnel Lining ◽  
Karst Cave ◽  
Tunnel Engineering ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Karst Caves ◽  
Karst Areas ◽  
Rock Tunnel ◽  
Design And Construction

Tunnel excavation tends to be affected by karst cavities in karst areas. Some cavities that are at low risk of causing safety issues without treatment tend to be ignored in the design and construction of tunnels to reduce costs. It is necessary to gain a better understanding of the effect of such a cavity on the seepage around a tunnel, the deformation of the surrounding rock, and the stress of the tunnel lining. In this paper, a two-dimensional rock-tunnel hydromechanical model with a karst cave was established with FLAC3D finite difference software to simulate the tunnel excavation with the consideration of seepage. Numerical simulations were performed to analyze the deformation of the surrounding rock, the seepage field of the surrounding rock, and the stress of the tunnel lining, and the results were compared for scenarios when the karst cave is at different locations relative to the tunnel. These results can provide a reference for the design and construction of tunnel engineering in rock with karst caves.

Study of the Effects of Karst Area Beneath the Tunnel on the Stability of Surrounding Rock

2014 ◽  
Vol 711 ◽  
pp. 402-405
Author(s):  
Li Wei Dong ◽  
Ping Cao ◽  
Jie Liu
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Vertical Stress ◽  
Karst Area ◽  
Karst Cave ◽  
Karst Caves ◽  
Tunnel Floor ◽  
Stability Of Surrounding Rock ◽  
Karst Areas ◽  
The Stability

Geotechnical engineering in large scale is endangered by the karst areas which are close to the engineering. The stability of the tunnels is greatly affected by the sizes and locations of the karst caves. Based on a engineering example, a study of the effects of karst area beneath the tunnel on the stability of surrounding rock is conducted. It can be concluded that the displacement release of surrounding rocks and the distribution of the vertical stress in surrounding rocks are greatly affected by the sizes of the karst caves and the distance between the tunnel floor and the karst cave.

Application of ABAQUS in Surrounding Rock Stability Analysis of Shallow Large Cross-Section Tunnel

2015 ◽  
Vol 777 ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Zhen Cai ◽  
Cheng Liang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Rock Mass ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Tunnel Engineering ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Rock Stability ◽  
Rock Bolting ◽  
Excavation Support ◽  
The Stability

HuJiaDi tunnel construction of Dai Gong highway is troublesome, the surrounding-rock mass give priority to full to strong weathering basalt, surrounding rock integrity is poor, weak self-stability of surrounding rock, and tunnel is prone to collapse. In order to reduce disturbance, taking advantage of the ability of rock mass, excavation adopt the method of "more steps, short footage and strong support". The excavation method using three steps excavation, The excavation footage is about 1.2 ~ 1.5 m; The surrounding rock bolting system still produce a large deformation after completion of the first support construction, it shows that the adopted support intensity cannot guarantee the stability of the tunnel engineering. Using ABAQUS to simulate tunnel excavation support, optimizing the support parameters of the tunnel, conducting comparative analysis with Monitoring and Measuring and numerical simulation results, it shows that the displacement - time curves have a certain consistency in numerical simulation of ABAQUS and Monitoring and Measuring.

scholarly journals Analysis on Water Inrush Process of Tunnel with Large Buried Depth and High Water Pressure

Processes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weimin Yang ◽  
Zhongdong Fang ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Liping Li ◽  
Shaoshuai Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Model Test ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Water Inrush ◽  
High Water ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Karst Cave ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Pressure Water ◽  
High Water Pressure

In order to explore the catastrophic evolution process for karst cave water inrush in large buried depth and high water pressure tunnels, a model test system was developed, and a similar fluid–solid coupled material was found. A model of the catastrophic evolution of water inrush was developed based on the Xiema Tunnel, and the experimental section was simulated using the finite element method. By analyzing the interaction between groundwater and the surrounding rocks during tunnel excavation, the law of occurrence of water inrush disaster was summarized. The water inrush process of a karst cave containing high-pressure water was divided into three stages: the production of a water flowing fracture, the expansion of the water flowing fracture, and the connection of the water flowing fracture. The main cause of water inrush in karst caves is the penetration and weakening of high-pressure water on the surrounding rock. This effect is becoming more and more obvious as tunnel excavation progresses. The numerical simulation results showed that the outburst prevention thickness of the surrounding rock is 4.5 m, and that of the model test result is 5 m. Thus, the results of the two methods are relatively close to each other. This work is important for studying the impact of groundwater on underground engineering, and it is of great significance to avoid water inrush in tunnels.

scholarly journals New Construction Technology of a Shallow Tunnel in Boulder-Cobble Mixed Grounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Liu ◽  
Yujian Zhong ◽  
Zhihua Feng ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Feiting Song ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Supporting System ◽  
Highway Tunnel ◽  
Bulk Medium ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Secondary Lining ◽  
Design And Construction

As a typical granular bulk medium, problems are common in boulder-cobble mixed grounds, such as easy collapse and instability and difficult effective support for large-section tunnel excavation. Tunnels constructed in BCM grounds are rare still, and there is a big gap between the design and construction of tunnels. Based on the Nianggaicun highway tunnel crossing the BCM grounds, the construction technology of tunnel in BCM grounds is studied by means of literature investigation and field survey. Here are the main conclusions: the overall deformation of surrounding rock is quite small; the pressure distribution of surrounding rock is small and loose pressure is dominant, and the safety reserve of secondary lining is large. The deformation process of surrounding rock concentrates on the construction stage. During the construction process, there are many problems, such as serious overexcavation, difficulty of bolt penetration, and continuous rock fall. In this paper, a three-bench complementary cyclic excavation method is proposed, which replaces the original CD and CRD methods. Meanwhile, the supporting system is optimized. The results show that the disturbance of surrounding rock is reduced, while the safety of construction process and the reliability of structure are increased. The new excavation method and optimized supporting system are expected to fill the gap between design and construction of tunnel in BCM grounds and provide reference for construction of such tunnels in the future.

scholarly journals Influence of Karst Caves at Pile Side on the Bearing Capacity of Super-Long Pile Foundation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Peisen Wang ◽  
Hongyan Ding ◽  
Puyang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Bearing Capacity ◽  
Pile Foundation ◽  
Horizontal Displacement ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Horizontal Load ◽  
Karst Cave ◽  
Karst Caves ◽  
Karst Areas ◽  
Vertical Bearing ◽  
Vertical Bearing Capacity

The differences in development and situation of karst caves lead to two kinds of karst caves, and the karst cave may be on the pile side or at the pile bottom, which has a different influence on the bearing capacity of pile foundation. The paper presents a numerical analysis of the influence of karst caves at pile side on the bearing capacity of super-long pile foundation in karst areas. According to the size of pile foundation of a real bridge project, this paper modelized karst caves and investigated the karst cave from the effect of length, height, and thickness of roof on horizontal and vertical bearing capacity of pile foundation. The main conclusions can be drawn as: when the horizontal displacement at the top of pile foundation is greater than 0.05 m, the horizontal load is correlated positively with the length of karst cave; when the vertical displacement is greater than 0.07 m, the vertical load is correlated negatively with the thickness of the roof of karst cave. However, the height of karst cave has little effect on the bearing capacity; also the existence of karst cave has little influence on the dynamic response of pile foundation. The results of this study can be important with reference to the design and construction of pile foundations in karst areas.

scholarly journals Parameter optimization of double side wall method for soft surrounding rock tunnel

2019 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 04021
Author(s):  
Zhihua Yang ◽  
Rumiao He ◽  
Ke Li ◽  
Hongyan Guo
Keyword(s):  
Side Wall ◽  
Horizontal Displacement ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Radius Of Curvature ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Rock Tunnel ◽  
Double Wall ◽  
Wall Method

When the Xiaojiazhai tunnel is constructed by the double-wall method, different curvature radii have different effects on controlling the stability of the surrounding rock and speeding up the construction progress. By numerically simulating the tunnel excavation under different radius of curvature, it is concluded that R is adopted respectively. The deformation displacement of surrounding rock is =11.6m∠520 and R=5.76m∠1060. The maximum horizontal displacement and vertical displacement are smaller when R=5.76m∠1060 is selected. According to the analysis results, when R=5.76m∠1060 is selected, the deformation of surrounding rock can be controlled to ensure the safety of construction and provide reference for future construction.

Comparison and Analysis of Different Excavation Methods in Soft Rock-Extremely Soft Rock Tunnel

2012 ◽  
Vol 256-259 ◽  
pp. 1201-1205
Author(s):  
Xiang Dong Zhang ◽  
Peng Tao Zhao ◽  
Wen Jun Gu
Keyword(s):  
Soft Rock ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Rock Deformation ◽  
Maximum Difference ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Comparison And Analysis ◽  
Rock Tunnel ◽  
Complex Geology ◽  
Surrounding Rock Deformation ◽  
Excavation Methods

In order to further study the law of surrounding rock deformation of soft rock-extremely soft rock double arch tunnel, resolve problem of tunnel excavation in complex geology conditions, based on project example, the central heading full section, central heading step and division method (three heading method) as research object, measured and simulated results were compared and analyzed, and used ANDIA software to do dynamic simulation. The results show that the characters of surrounding rock deformation are different with different excavation methods; Simulated and measured results are almost the same ,and the maximum difference has only 6%, reflecting simulated value has a certain reliability; The more the step numbers are excavated in soft rock-extremely soft rock tunnel, the smaller the area excavated is, the smaller the rock is disturbance, the smaller the surface subsidence and two state convergence value is, more be able to meet construction requirements; Compared with the other two methods, division method is more to reduce the deformation in the surrounding rock with class of V.

Study on In Situ Monitoring of the Surrounding Rock Pressure of the Shallow Large-Span Tunnel in the Tunnel Construction Process

2011 ◽  
Vol 413 ◽  
pp. 454-458
Author(s):  
Xin Zhi Li ◽  
Shu Cai Li ◽  
Ying Yong Li ◽  
Shu Chen Li
Keyword(s):  
Rock Pressure ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
In Situ Monitoring ◽  
Tunnel Engineering ◽  
Tunnel Face ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Large Span ◽  
Parallel Tunnel ◽  
Surrounding Rock Pressure

The surrounding rock pressure which was determined effectively through in-situ monitoring was the important parametric of the tunnel engineering design.According to in-situ monitoring of the surrounding rock pressure in the relied engineering . The adjustment and distribution characteristics of surrounding rock pressure of the shallow large-span tunnel with three-level seven-step parallel tunnel excavation was studied, the results showed that the arch and sides of the tunnel arch foot were the key parts which concentrated the surrounding rock pressure. The adjustment and distribution of surrounding rock pressure had not obvious relationships with tunnel face distance. Finally, the composite factors that impacted monitoring results of the surrounding rock pressure was analysed. The results had great significance on the development and perfection of the surrounding rock pressure theory in shallow large-span tunnel.

The Simulation Analysis of Large Cross-Section Soft Rock Tunnel Excavation under the Bias Terrain

2011 ◽  
Vol 90-93 ◽  
pp. 1853-1858
Author(s):  
Gang Zhang ◽  
Hong Bing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Soft Rock ◽  
Internal Force ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Area Distribution ◽  
Tunnel Design ◽  
Initial Support ◽  
Rock Tunnel

Abstract: Taking a High-speed railway tunnel as the background, This paper analyses not only the stress and displacement of surrounding rock , the plastic area distribution and size, but also the size and distribution of initial support internal force in two excavation schemes, based on the criterion of underground engineering structure design theory and rock elastic-plastic succumb Drucker-Prager, Under the guidance of New Austria Tunneling Method, this paper makes numerical simulation of soft rock tunnel excavation in large sections and initial support with the finite software ANSYS11.0. The stress and displacement of surrounding rock and the plastic area distribution and size under two excavation schemes are analyzed, the size and distribution of initial support internal force under two excavation schemes are also investigated .By comprehensive comparing advantages and disadvantages of two schemes, this paper makes some significant conclusions and gives reference for the similar tunnel design and construction.

Study on Stability of Surrounding Rock in Shallow Tunnel under Unsymmetrical Pressure

2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 1529-1533
Author(s):  
Su Chao Xu ◽  
T. Y. Liu ◽  
C.Y. Jin
Keyword(s):  
Stress Field ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Shallow Tunnel ◽  
Tunnel Engineering ◽  
Numerical Studies ◽  
Field Displacement ◽  
Stability Of Surrounding Rock ◽  
Tunnel Entrance ◽  
Design And Construction

Both of the stress field and deformation are unsymmetrical for shallow tunnel under unsymmetrical pressure and geological disaster such as collapse is easily to take place. This brings about troubling problems to both design and construction. In this paper, a case of Hongshigou tunnel is studied. Aiming at dealing with the problem of low buried and unsymmetrical pressure situation of tunnel entrance, a series of numerical studies has been done based on Flac3D, after analyzing the characterization of stress field, displacement field and plastic zones, conclusions are gained as follows:1) 2) These conclusions can provide beneficial reference to design and construction for tunnel engineering.

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