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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99439-x
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFB1306700]
- Science and Technology Major Project of Hunan Province, China [2019GK1015]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51475478]
- Fundamental Research Funds for The Central Universities of Central South University [2017zzts086]
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A discrimination method of mud cake formation based on cutterhead temperature was proposed in this study, and an online monitoring system was designed and installed on the slurry balance TBM. The results show that the temperature variation at certain positions of the cutterhead can accurately identify mud cake formation.
The mud cake is easily formed during the tunnel boring machine (TBM) excavation in clay soils or rocks containing clay minerals. Mud cake will lead to soil disturbance of tunnel face, clogging cutterhead and even affect the construction efficiency and personnel safety. In this study, a discrimination method of mud cake formation based on cutterhead temperature was proposed. An online monitoring system was designed and installed on the slurry balance TBM. The results show that: (a) the cutterhead temperature data can be reliably detected and transmitted by the system; (b) in a tunneling cycle, the temperature at some positions of the cutterhead will increase first and then decrease; (c) during the field test, the temperature variation is around 2.5 degrees C under the normal condition, but the temperature variation will increase more than 50 degrees C due to the mud cake or geological change; (d) compared with the cooling rate, mud cake formation can be accurately discriminated.
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