Journal
TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages 68-79Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2018.03.025
Keywords
Tunnel interactions; Twin tunnels; Horseshoe-shaped tunnel
Funding
- Research Grants Council (RGC) of the HKSAR [16208115, 16207414, M-HKUST603/13]
- National Science Foundation of China [51378178, 20130094140001]
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Three-dimensional numerical analyses were conducted to study the effects of the ratio of the breadth of an existing horseshoe-shaped tunnel to the diameter of new circular tunnels (B/D) on the interaction of perpendicularly crossing tunnels in sand. Hypoplasticity constitutive soil model with small strain stiffness was adopted in the study. For different cover depths, the computed results revealed that the induced maximum settlement at the centre of an existing tunnel invert is unaffected by its size. The sagging settlement profile along the existing tunnel crown gradually changes into a hogging shape with increasing B/D ratios for smaller cover depth. The mid-plane deformations of the existing tunnel are vertically elongated and horizontally compressed.
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