scholarly journals An Improved Method for Predicting the Greenfield Stratum Movements Caused by Shield Tunnel Construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 4522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Zhu ◽  
Tu

Shield tunneling is becoming the preferred construction scheme for metro construction because of its advantages of fast construction speed and small disturbance. However, limited by process defects, the stratum movements induced by the construction of shield tunnels still affects the safety of nearby underground structures and aboveground buildings. Therefore, the reliable prediction of stratum movements is important. Described in this paper is an analysis method of the Greenfield stratum movements (Greenfield is an area of land that has not yet had buildings on it, stratum movements means the movement of various soil layers) caused by shield tunnel construction combining an elastic half-space model of mirror source–sink method with the use of modified analytical method. Based on the theoretical formula in this paper, not only can the curve of surface settlement trough be calculated, but also the three-dimensional displacement field of deep soil can be obtained. By comparing vertical and horizontal contour maps of Greenfield stratum movements, good consistency between theoretical formula results and centrifugal test results are shown. This solves the defects and limitations of existing two-dimensional formulas; furthermore, based on this, it is convenient to evaluate the effect on the other skewed underground structures through the elastic foundation beam and other similar methods; therefore, this paper can provide a wide guidance and service for the design and construction of underground engineering in the future.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 3028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhu ◽  
Chen ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Tu ◽  
Chen

In order to relieve the increasing ground traffic pressure in the process of urbanization in China, it is inevitable to build more metro lines. However, the stratum movement caused by tunneling affects the safety of adjacent underground structures and aboveground buildings. Therefore, how to evaluate and control the stratum movement is a prominent problem. In this paper, based on the engineering project of an interval tunnel between Shizishan Station and Chuanshi Station in Chengdu Metro Line 7, China, the action mechanism of stratum movement induced by shield tunneling is analyzed, and the effect factors are divided into two categories: ground loss factors and mechanical factors. Combining the advantages of Loganathan method and mirror source-sink method, a new solution of three-dimensional displacement induced by ground loss is proposed. Based on the elastic half-space Mindlin model, the displacement at any point induced by four mechanical effect factors is deduced. Finally, the total displacement is verified by field monitoring data and quantitative analyzed in various parts.


2014 ◽  
Vol 711 ◽  
pp. 514-519
Author(s):  
Feng Qi Zhu ◽  
Huan Qin Liu ◽  
Jian Zhang

Shield tunning method has been used widely in urban underground engineering. Based on a certain range of Wuhan subway shield tunnel, the subway shield tunnel segment of the internal force and deformation were studied by the load structure method and stratum structure method. Influence of the formation parameters and the parameters of the lining structure on the segment internal force and deformation was analyzed. And the tunnel construction was modeled by three-dimensional dynamic finite element method. The influence of the construction process about ground subsidence and segment stress was discussed, in order to guide urban subway tunnel construction design.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 32-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Jiang Wei ◽  
Jie Hong ◽  
Gang Wei

Considering the interaction of building-soil-tunnel, the grillage beams foundation frame building vertical crossed by Double-O-Tube (DOT) shield tunnel was simulated by 3D MIDAS/ GTS software, and the impact of construction on the building was analyzed. The results show that: the ground settlement trough caused by DOT shield tunnel can be fitted by peck formula; during the passage of the shield tunneling through the building, the settlement of the building increased and settlement trough was wilder; the settlement was stable and had a little rebound when shield machine already passed the building; with the increase of driving distance, the first principal stress P1 increased and then was stable; with the increase of L, the shape of foundation settlement curve changed, and the maximum differential settlement between columns increased but was small.


2014 ◽  
Vol 915-916 ◽  
pp. 108-113
Author(s):  
Wei Kai Zong

Shield construction will cause surface subsidence, and the presence of underground structures above the tunnel has an impact on surface subsidence. Based on this, with the engineering of undercross shield tunnel construction on railway station as background, used numerical simulation method to analyze the effect of surface subsidence of underground passage, and studied the influence of depth and width of underpasses on ground movement induced. The results show that: The impact of the underground passage to the wire surface subsidence caused by the shield cannot be ignored. Surface subsidence caused by double shield will be decreased because of the existence of the underground passage, and that related to the channel depth and width. The greater the depth of underground channel, the greater the surface subsidence; greater the underground channel width, the smaller surface subsidence. Meanwhile, the surface subsidence trough width and the largest settlement scope unrelated to the depth of underground tunnels but the underground channel width, and increases with the increasing of the underpass width.


2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 1013-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Feng Su ◽  
Wei Ning Liu ◽  
Fu Chun Liu

Confronting with the difficulties of the construction metro station in the Northeast of China, a new idea of shield method combined prefabricated method is put forward. In the paper the research status of the underground engineering precast assembly technology was analyzed and classified firstly. The method of single round interval shield combined with open-cut (or covered excavation) prefabricated sections and on the basis of shield tunnel to build single arch station is especially worth studying and promotion. Then the key prefabricate theory needing to deal with such as how to calculating the spring stiffness and so forth of the calculating model. The key technology such as joint formation, waterproof and the other of shield method combined with prefabricated method was discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 502-506
Author(s):  
Meng Lin Xu ◽  
De Shen Zhao

The shield tunneling will be bound to disturb surrounding strata, induced stress redistribution in soil, soil deformation and surface subsidence. We analyzed characteristics of soil disturbance by shield tunneling with numerical simulation. To provide technical support for the future urban shield tunnel construction. It shows practically significant in studying shield tunnel construction.


2011 ◽  
Vol 105-107 ◽  
pp. 886-891
Author(s):  
Yong Suo Li ◽  
Ke Neng Zhang ◽  
Mei Long Deng ◽  
Chang Bo Huang

Shield tunneling is often adopted in underground engineering such as civil tunnel construction and mine excavation. The program FLAC3D is used to simulate the process of the tunnel excavation through underground structure in Shenyang in this paper. The analysis results show that,(1) the soil below the end wall suffers great displacement, when the shield approaches the end wall of underground framework from different directions, so the soil under the end wall needs to be reinforced. (2) Increasing pressure and volume of grouting can’t significantly reduce the amount of surface subsidence when the drilling of the shield acrosses through the independent foundation. (3) The influences of shielding to the construction are limited because of the constraint function to the surrounding rock above the tunnel by the great entire rigidity of under-ground framework. The results of numerical simulation exactly matches the monitoring data when the stiffness of under-ground frame structure is considered, and it can provide guidance for engineering practice.


2012 ◽  
Vol 182-183 ◽  
pp. 937-940
Author(s):  
Zhong Chang Wang

The fine numerical simulation is used to study the ground settlement of complex stratum owing to shield construction by ANSYS program. It is shown that the closer the distance between soil layer and the axis of tunnel is, the smaller the disturbance of construction is, the obvious the ground surface settlement is. The value of the maximum settlement at the center of the surface is 7.4mm. The maximum settlement of vault is 14mm. The ground subsidence in cross section distribution is shaped of normal distribution. The closer the distance between soil layer and ground surface is, the smaller the vertical displacement is, the bigger the width of settlement trough of soil layers is. The width of settlement trough is 25m. The volume loss rate of shield tunnel is about 0.32%. The width coefficient of ground settlement trough is 0.56. The tendency of ground settlement decrease to become gentle with the advance of shield construction. The ground settlement keeps constant after tunnel face advancing to 30m.


2015 ◽  
Vol 777 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Pei Sheng Xi ◽  
Xiao Zhao ◽  
Zhen Li

Shield tunneling have varying degrees of impact on the surrounding buildings and the surrounding environment. Based on the shield tunneling of Hefei Subway Line 1 Ma'anshan viaduct, a 3D Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua is be used to simulate the shield tunnel construction and analyze the ground settlement and bridge pile deformation caused by tunnel construction. The numerical modeling results by analyzing the displacement variation and soil affected area at different distances show that when the shield tunnel excavation, the ground settlement becomes smaller with increasing distance from the shield center line of the pile and the maximum ground settlement is 10.778mm. The main deformation of bridge pile is in horizontal direction with a maximum horizontal direction of 2.0758mm. Horizontal displacement changes lager at the top of the pile, along with changes in the horizontal displacement of the pile depth becomes smaller, 15m is a turning point.


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