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Microseismic characteristics of rockburst development in deep TBM tunnels with alternating soft-hard strata and application to rockburst warning: A case study of the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2022.104398

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Rockburst; Microseismicity; Mechanism; Warning; Alternating soft-hard strata; Tunnel

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51621006, 41972295]

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This study investigates the characteristics of microseismicity in deep tunnels constructed within alternating soft-hard strata and proposes a warning method for rockbursts based on the observed data. The findings provide valuable insights for understanding and predicting rockbursts in deep tunnels with complex lithologies.
The rockbursts that occur when tunneling through deep, hard rock can result in serious harm to workers, mechanical damage, delays, and economic losses. As a result, obtaining a warning of impending rockburst remains a challenge in rock engineering around the world. Unfortunately, the rockbursts that occur in deep tunnels with alternating soft-hard strata have development laws and mechanisms that are unclear and so are particularly difficult to predict. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the microseismicity occurring in deep tunnels constructed within alternating soft-hard strata and using the data to warn of rockburst occurrence. The study uses the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project in Pakistan (tunnels with a maximum burial depth of 1,890 m) as an engineering background. The temporal evolution of the microseismicity and the fracturing mechanism involved in the rockburst development process in alternating soft-hard strata were thus revealed. Thresholds for six microseismic (MS) parameters that can be used to warn of rockbursts of different intensities in different lithologies were thus found based on 58 recorded cases (recorded during a month-long period of MS monitoring). These thresholds were subsequently used (together with MS monitoring) to warn of rockbursts of a certain intensity in the corresponding lithology during the excavation of subsequent tunnels. The warning results obtained agree with the actual situation when the right thresholds for the corresponding lithologies were used. The characteristic values of the six MS parameters used for rockburst warning in different lithologies were also discussed. Our results provide a useful reference for understanding and warning of rockbursts in deep tunnels in rockmasses with similarly complex lithologies.

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