Abstract
When river channels or foundation pits are excavated above the existing subway tunnels, ground soil unloading will have a disturbance effect on the safety of the existing tunnel structure. Based on a typical river-channel excavation project, this paper designs a total of 25 comparison schemes considering the influence of five major factors: the relative distance between the river channel and the existing tunnel, river-channel excavation width, tunnel's embedment depth, grouting reinforcement thickness and grouting reinforcement range. This paper conducts a numerical simulation study on the river-channel excavation above the existing subway tunnels under different working conditions, and carries out comparative analysis on disturbance effect laws of different working conditions on deformation of the ground soil and the existing tunnel structure. On this basis, this paper constructs sensitivity evaluation indexes for disturbance effect on the existing tunnels, identifies the influence sensitivity of the above five major factors, and provides engineering suggestions and measures. Finally, based on the numerical simulation results, we carried out a field verification test. The research work in this paper can provide some reference for design and risk prevention of excavation engineering adjacent to the existing subway tunnels.
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Abbreviations
- A:
-
Relative distance between river channel and tunnel
- B:
-
Excavation width of river channel at the bottom
- C:
-
Tunnel's embedment depth
- D:
-
Grouting reinforcement thickness
- E:
-
Grouting reinforcement range
- \(\xi_{{S_{i} }}\) :
-
Sensitivity evaluation index
- \(i\) :
-
Influencing factor
- \(S_{i\max }\) :
-
Maximum values of the heave displacement at the bottom of the river channel within the value range of an influencing factor
- \(S_{i\min }\) :
-
Minimum values of the heave displacement at the bottom of the river channel within the value range of an influencing factor
- \(T_{i\max }\) :
-
Maximum values corresponding to the value range of the influencing factor
- \(T_{i\min }\) :
-
Minimum values corresponding to the value range of the influencing factor
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The authors also would like to acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52374093), Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2022M711314), Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. ZR2022ME088).
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Wang, Hm., Yu, X., **ng, Bn. et al. Numerical Analysis of the Effect of River Channel Excavation on Existing Subway Tunnels. Geotech Geol Eng 42, 4225–4244 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-024-02759-8
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