Research on Support Technique for Excavation Process of Deep Rock Mass

2013 ◽  
Vol 438-439 ◽  
pp. 1249-1252
Author(s):  
Hong Xiao Wu ◽  
Song Lin Yue ◽  
Cun Cheng Shi ◽  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Cheng Chu ◽  
...  

In the deep rock mass surrounding, rock burst, large deformation, zonal fracturing and phenomena like these may occur in the tunnel excavation process. When zonal fracturing happens, it is essential to reconsider the types of support, the boundary of support and the approach of tunnel excavation. In this paper, the control theory about the surrounding rock stability under high pre-existing stresses was researched, and the efficient support form which was the combination of high strength anchor bar and anchor cable was ascertained to be adaptive to deep tunnel excavation. According to the deformation and zonal fracturing mechanism of the surrounding rock, a comprehensive support program that combined intensive short anchor bars and long anchor cables was established, and the numerical simulation was carried out to verify the feasibility of the support form.

2015 ◽  
Vol 777 ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Zhen Cai ◽  
Cheng Liang Zhang

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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingteng Tang ◽  
Wenbing Xie ◽  
Xingkai Wang ◽  
Zhili Su ◽  
Jinhai Xu

Zonal disintegration, a phenomenon of fractured zones and intact zones distributed alternately in deep rock mass, is different from the excavation-damaged zone of shallow rock mass. In this study, bonded block model of 3DEC was employed to study the fracture mode and origination condition of zonal disintegration. Initiation, propagation, and coalescence progress of fracture around the roadway boundary under different triaxial stress conditions are elaborated. Numerical simulation demonstrated that zonal disintegration may occur when the direction of maximum principal stress is parallel to the roadway axis. It is interesting to find that the fracture around the roadway boundary traced the line of a spiral line, while slip-line fractures distributed apart from the roadway boundary. The extent of the alternate fracture zone decreased as the confining pressure increased, and alternate fracture zone was no longer in existence when the confining pressure reaches a certain value. Effects of roadway shape on zonal disintegration were also studied, and the results indicated that the curvature of the fracture track line tends to be equal to the roadway boundary in shallow surrounding rock of the roadway, while the fractures in deep surrounding rock seems unaffected by the roadway shape. Those findings are of great significance to support design of deep underground openings.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xiangye Wu ◽  
Jingya Wang ◽  
Jingang Li ◽  
Jianwei Li ◽  
Tao Xu ◽  
...  

Based on the hydrostatic pressure theory of initial stress state of rock mass, combined with Saint-Venant’s principle central idea, the principle of invariant stress of surrounding rock mass of the hole under the condition of equal pressure in deep rock mass is put forward. Numerical simulation is used to study the properties of surrounding rock and section shape of different holes, the depth of the plastic zone, the range of stress influence, and the relationship between them. The study results showed the following. (1) In the current mining depth range, it is difficult to reach the limit of 5 times the hole radius under the condition of invariant pressure of deep rock mass, and it has a significant impact on the near field and relatively small impact on the far field, reflecting the localization effect of the stress influence range. (2) The increase of stress influence range mainly moves outward with the increase of plastic zone range, and its growth slope is low and tends to be horizontal, and the increase amount is negligible. (3) When the failure range of the plastic zone of the hole is small, the influence range of the stress does not change itself, which reflects the stress invariability of the small-scale failure of the surrounding rock of the hole. The research results verify the principle of stress invariability of the surrounding rock of the hole under the condition of equal pressure of the deep rock mass, which is consistent with Saint-Venant’s central idea.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Zhang ◽  
Chun Luo ◽  
Heng Zhang ◽  
Ruikai Gong

Rockbursts are one of the prominent problems faced by deep underground engineering. Not only do they affect the construction progress, but they also threaten the safety of construction personnel and equipment, and may even induce earthquakes. Therefore, the prediction of rockbursts has very important engineering significance for the excavation of deeply buried tunnels. In this paper, a new indicator for stability and optimization evaluation of hard, brittle surrounding rock under high geo-stresses, namely the minimum energy storage limit of surrounding rock induced by transient unloading, is proposed. In addition, the time for erecting support for tunnel excavation in the rockburst area and the impact of excavation dimensions on rockburst are investigated. The results show that transient unloading during the tunnel excavation process will reduce the energy storage limit of the rock mass. When the strain energy density of the local surrounding rock exceeds the minimum energy storage limit of the rock mass, the rock mass energy is suddenly released, and rockburst occurs. Rockburst is most likely to occur at 0.42–0.65 D away from the working face. The increasing length of a round adopted in high geo-stress areas will make the surrounding rock unstable and increase the probability of rockburst.


2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 04016
Author(s):  
NIU Yan ◽  
Ji Yafei ◽  
Wang Zhao

Tunnel excavation will lead to the immediate surrounding rock unloading caused by the surrounding rock stress release, the stability of the surrounding rock have a certain impact. In this paper, finite element software ANSYS and finite difference software FLAC3D are used to simulate the excavation and lining process of circular tunnel. The influence of excavation on the rock stability around circular tunnel is analyzed, and the effect of applying lining on the stability of surrounding rock is analyzed. Evaluation criteria selection hole displacement, stress and plastic area of three factors.


Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Qingzhen Guo ◽  
Haijian Su ◽  
Hongwen Jing ◽  
Wenxin Zhu

Water inrush caused by the wetting-drying cycle is a difficult problem in tunnel excavation. To investigate the effect of the wetting-drying cycle on the stability of the tunnel surrounding rock, physical experiments and numerical simulations regarding the process of tunnel excavation with different wetting-drying cycle numbers were performed in this study. The evolutions of stress, displacement, and pore water pressure were analyzed. With the increase in cycle number, the pore water pressure, vertical stress, and top-bottom approach of the tunnel surrounding rock increase gradually. And the increasing process could be divided into three stages: slightly increasing stage, slowly increasing stage, and sharply increasing stage, respectively. The failure process of the surrounding rock under the wetting-drying cycle gradually occurs from the roof to side wall, while the baseplate changes slightly. The simulation results showed that the maximum principal stress in the surrounding rock mass of the tunnel increases, while the minimum principal stress decreases. Furthermore, the displacement of the rock mass decreases gradually with the increasing distance from the tunnel surface. By comparing the simulation results with the experimental results, well consistency is shown. The results in this study can provide helpful references for the safe excavation and scientific design of a tunnel under the wetting-drying cycle.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 168781401878208
Author(s):  
Jihong Wei ◽  
Jin Liu ◽  
Zezhuo Song ◽  
Yulong Zhu ◽  
Yuxia Bai

The rock mass has special properties, such as inhomogeneity, anisotropy, discontinuity, and nonelastic, due to various internal or external stress in the process of its formation. In this study, similar materials are considered to simulate the rock mass and analyze the failure law using laboratory tri-axial tests based on the similarity principle. The rock mass and discontinuity are constituted in the process of model construction by considering the influence of the orientation, spacing, and number of discontinuity, respectively. Then, the influences of the orientation, spacing, number of discontinuity, and the combination of different discontinuous strength on rupture mechanism of the rock mass are analyzed by considering lots of numerical test schemes using the discontinuous deformation analysis method. Finally, considering water conveyance tunnel in Jurong Pumped Storage Power Station in China as a test case, the tunnel stability under different discontinuities combination is analyzed using discontinuous deformation analysis method. The influence of the optimal tunnel axis and tunnel shape on the stability of surrounding rock is studied by comparative analysis of surrounding rock stability under different tunnel axis and tunnel shapes. The stress concentration in case of the circular tunnel with corner is somehow less than that of the rectangular one.


2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 859-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhua Yang ◽  
Wenbo Lu ◽  
Ming Chen ◽  
Peng Yan ◽  
Chuangbing Zhou

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 1131-1134
Author(s):  
Jian Guo Yang ◽  
Li Chuan Chen ◽  
Hong Liang Liao ◽  
Fan Yang

THM coupling is an important process in engineering rock mass. In order to study the mechanism of THM coupling in surrounding rock of deep rock roadway in coalmine, the interactions between THM fields were analyzed, and the governing equations of THM coupling were given. Finally, a model of rock roadway with aquifer is simulated, and the distribution of pore pressure as well as the thermal and stress fields were obtained after some steps of calculation.


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