Three Dimensional Elastic-Plastic Numerical Simulation of Tunnel Excavation Sequence of Dalian Speed Railway

2012 ◽  
Vol 170-173 ◽  
pp. 1474-1478
Author(s):  
An Nan Jiang ◽  
Hong Wei Yang ◽  
Hong Fu Xin ◽  
Bing Bai
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Damage Zone ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Stability Control ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Railway Tunnel ◽  
Elastic Plastic

Dalian speed railway tunnel is located in complex soft rock and soil, the road foundation deform and surrounding rock stability control is a concern problem. Along with the unloading process of excavation, surrounding rock moving to inner hole, while exceeding the elastic limitation, the plastic deform and the surrounding rock destroy then occurred. The paper adopted three dimensional elastic-plastic method based on Mohr-Coulomb yielding criterion and carried out numerical simulation of excavation process, in order to analyze and compare the surrounding rock vertical displacement contour, ground surface settlement and damage zone corresponding to different construction sequence. The elastic-plastic numerical method can reflect the damage and destroy character of nonlinear soil material of surrounding rock corresponding to different construction scheme, the simulation result has active guiding meaning for the Dalian speed railway tunnel construction design and dynamic analysis.

Numerical Simulation of Blasting-Induced Damage in Grouting Curtain of Sandstone Aquifer for Vertical Shaft

2015 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 271-278
Author(s):  
Yu Liang Zhou ◽  
Dong Feng Yuan ◽  
Jun Zheng ◽  
Hua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Damage Zone ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Damage Effect ◽  
Vertical Shaft ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Sandstone Aquifer ◽  
And Control ◽  
Dynamic Damage

To provide a theoretical basis for water prevention and control methods and reasonable supporting techniques for vertical shaft, and to ensure the shaft construction to pass the sandstone aquifer safely and rapidly, numerical simulation using dynamic damage constitutive model, which was a user-defined constitutive modules in FLAC3D, a lagrangian analysis code in three dimensions, has been applied to investigate the dynamic damage effect in the surrounding rock of the grouting curtain near the driving working face for vertical shaft excavated by blasting. The results indicate that the distribution of the damage zone in the surrounding rock of the shaft, which decreases the effective thickness of the grouting curtain, was like a ellip-se, and that the depth of the damage zone in the surrounding rock of the shaft grouting curtain is fewer than that of the driving face floor. It can be concluded that the centre part of the driving face floor, especially the cutting hole zones, and the shaft wall in the greater horizontal stress side are the " key parts " for shaft water prevention and control methods.

The Bench Method Numerical Simulation of Soft Rock Tunnel

2013 ◽  
Vol 438-439 ◽  
pp. 949-953
Author(s):  
Hao Bo Fan ◽  
Jin Xing Lai ◽  
Dan Dan Hou
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Internal Force ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Supporting Structure ◽  
Highway Tunnel ◽  
Tunnel Design ◽  
Rock Tunnel

This paper based on Chaoyang tunnel by bench method excavation, using the finite element numerical simulation method, simulates the surrounding rock displacement of soft rock tunnel and the stress characteristics of supporting structure to get the various stages of tunnel surrounding rock stress, strain and the internal force changes of tunnel supporting structure. After the analyses of the numerical simulation results and field monitoring measurement data, the safety and rationality of the method are determined. The research provides certain reference for highway tunnel design and construction.

scholarly journals 3D MODELLING OF TUNNEL EXCAVATION USING PRESSURIZED TUNNEL BORING MACHINE IN OVERCONSOLIDATED SOILS

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafik Demagh ◽  
Fabrice Emeriault
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Tunnel Boring Machine ◽  
Confining Pressure ◽  
Soil Mass ◽  
Shield Tunnel ◽  
Tunnel Boring ◽  
Boring Machines

Abstract The construction of shallow tunnels in urban areas requires a prior assessment of their effects on the existing structures. In the case of shield tunnel boring machines (TBM), the various construction stages carried out constitute a highly three-dimensional problem of soil/structure interaction and are not easy to represent in a complete numerical simulation. Consequently, the tunnelling- induced soil movements are quite difficult to evaluate. A 3D simulation procedure, using a finite differences code, namely FLAC3D, taking into account, in an explicit manner, the main sources of movements in the soil mass is proposed in this paper. It is illustrated by the particular case of Toulouse Subway Line B for which experimental data are available and where the soil is saturated and highly overconsolidated. A comparison made between the numerical simulation results and the insitu measurements shows that the 3D procedure of simulation proposed is relevant, in particular regarding the adopted representation of the different operations performed by the tunnel boring machine (excavation, confining pressure, shield advancement, installation of the tunnel lining, grouting of the annular void, etc). Furthermore, a parametric study enabled a better understanding of the singular behaviour origin observed on the ground surface and within the solid soil mass, till now not mentioned in the literature.

Incremental Variable Plastic Three-Dimensional Elastic-Plastic Finite Element Analysis in Soft Rock Tunnel Excavation

2014 ◽  
Vol 508 ◽  
pp. 243-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Peng Li ◽  
Xiao Li ◽  
Dong Qing Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Analysis ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Elastic Plastic ◽  
Stiffness Method ◽  
Rock Tunnel

The plane finite element analysis is mostly adopted in soft rock tunnel excavation instead of three-dimensional nonlinear finite element analysis at present, but almost every underground engineering is a spatial nonlinear problem which, in many cases, cannot be simplified into a plane problem. This paper presents a three-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element analysis of incremental variable plastic in soft rock tunnel excavation, through analyzing the tunnel excavation and support, and combining the incremental variable plastic stiffness method into three-dimensional elastic-plastic model in light of the advantage of increment variable stiffness method and the incremental additional load method. Simulation results show that, the three-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element analysis model presented in this paper changes little final deformation under different load release coefficients, together with small support stress.

Model Test Study on Failure Mechanism of Unsupported Tunnels Constructed in Soft Rock Masses at Different Cross Section

2011 ◽  
Vol 90-93 ◽  
pp. 2282-2285
Author(s):  
Cheng Bing Wang ◽  
He Hua Zhu ◽  
Hua Lao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Gravitational Stress ◽  
Section Type ◽  
Failure Conditions ◽  
Full Face

The failure conditions of tunnel surrounding rock under different cross section after full face excavation were studied through a number of model tests. The simulation of unsupported tunnel failure process under gravitational stress is carried out successfully in the tests. The test results show that failure of surrounding rock initiates from the upper part of the tunnel and develops upward progressively. Failure form of tunnel is different under different cross section type. Comparing with two-lane tunnel, the surrounding rock of three-lane tunnel keeps shorter stabilization, failure develops to the ground surface more rapidly, the stress changing amplitude of those beside tunnel is larger, and the rock mass on the top of the tunnel slides downward more clearly.

Three Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Ground Settlement Induced by Shield Tunneling

2012 ◽  
Vol 182-183 ◽  
pp. 937-940
Author(s):  
Zhong Chang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Soil Layer ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Vertical Displacement ◽  
Ground Subsidence ◽  
Shield Tunnel ◽  
Ground Settlement ◽  
Shield Tunneling ◽  
Tunnel Face ◽  
Maximum Settlement

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.

scholarly journals Numerical Simulation Analysis of New Steel Sets Used for Roadway Support in Coal Mines

Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinghai Li ◽  
Jingkai Li ◽  
Jinpeng Zhang ◽  
Changxiang Wang ◽  
Kai Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Observation Point ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Surrounding Rock Control ◽  
Roadway Support ◽  
Two Sides

The surrounding rock control is a tough issue in the roadway with the swelling soft rock. The steel set is an important material for the control of swelling soft rock roadways. However, traditional steel sets failed to prevent the expansive pressure of the soft rock. Based on traditional steel sets, this paper developed a new steel set through both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. The results showed that the new steel set was the set with the roof beam 1000 mm from the top of the set and the floor beam 400 mm from the bottom end of the set. The maximum deformations of the roof-floor and two sides of the ventilation roadway controlled by the best-improved set at the observation point were 147 mm and 108 mm, respectively. So, the best-improved set can effectively control the surrounding rock of the ventilation roadway. This provides an effective method for the surrounding rock control in extremely soft rock roadways.

scholarly journals Fatigue Performance of Tunnel Invert in Newly Designed Heavy Haul Railway Tunnel

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (24) ◽  
pp. 5514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Liu ◽  
Limin Peng ◽  
Mingfeng Lei ◽  
Chenghua Shi ◽  
Ning Liu
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Rock Pressure ◽  
Coupling Effect ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Fatigue Performance ◽  
Railway Tunnel ◽  
Heavy Haul ◽  
Surrounding Rock Pressure ◽  
Bottom Structures ◽  
Heavy Haul Railway

The Haoji railway in China is the longest heavy haul railway in the world, including 235 tunnels located along the 1837 km railway. With the increasing axle load of the new line and the basal deterioration of the existing heavy haul railway in China, studying the fatigue performance of the newly designed tunnel structure is essential. To study the coupling effect of the surrounding rock pressure and 30 t axle load train, in this study, we combined three-dimensional numerical simulation and three-point bending fatigue tests to investigate the fatigue performance of the basal structures. The results of numerical simulation indicate that the center of the inverted arch secondary lining is the position vulnerable to fatigue in the lower tunnel structures; the surrounding rock pressure performance exerts a stronger influence on the stress state of the vulnerable position than the dynamic train loads. The S–N formula obtained from the experiment showed that the fatigue life of tunnel bottom structures decreases with increasing surrounding rock pressure and dynamic load. In typical grade V surrounding rock and 30 t axle loads, fatigue failure will not occur in the newly designed tunnel bottom structures within 100 years if bedrock defects are lacking and pressure of surrounding rock is not excessive.

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