Journal
TUNNELLING AND UNDERGROUND SPACE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2020.103291
Keywords
Horseshoe-shaped shield tunnel; Face stability; Limit support pressure; Continuous velocity field
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51978042]
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation of China [8172037]
- Research and Development Plan of China Railway Corporation [N2018G029]
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The face stability of a horseshoe-shaped shield tunnel in undrained clays with a linearly increasing strength is numerically and analytically investigated in this paper. Based on the kinematic approach of limit analysis, a continuous velocity field for a horseshoe-shaped shield tunnel is proposed to evaluate the limit support pressure of both the collapse and blow-out of the tunnel face. Moreover, the analytical results are compared with those obtained from the numerical simulation and other existing literatures. The results show that the horseshoe-shaped shield tunnel can improve the face stability compared to the circular shield tunnel. Finally, an improved velocity field is proposed, which provides a more realistic failure pattern and a better upper bound solution of the limit support pressure for the horseshoe-shaped shield tunnel.
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