Journal
COMPUTERS AND CONCRETE
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 189-208Publisher
TECHNO-PRESS
DOI: 10.12989/cac.2021.28.2.189
Keywords
discrete element method; induced wing crack; interacted joint; tunnel; two dimensions
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- Scientific research plan guiding project of Hubei Provincial Education Department [B2020143]
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Power System Design and Test for Electrical Vehicle,Hubei University of Arts and Science [XKQ2021030]
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The study found that tensile cracks were the dominant mode in the modeled samples. Wing cracks initiated from the joint tips when the joints interacted in a position lower than that of the tunnel height. The stability of the tunnel can be maintained when the joint interacting with the tunnel head has a negative interaction angle.
The experimentally tested modelled specimens were simulated by a two-dimensional particle flow code to study the behavior of rock mass surrounding a tunnel interacted with a nearby rock joint or discontinuity. The specially prepared specimens are tested in the laboratory and the measured results are provided. Then a numerical modelling of these tests is accomplished by a calibrated two-dimensional particle flow code to study the rock tunnel behavior while interacting with a neighboring joint. The two-dimensional discrete element code was calibrated using Brazilian tensile test. Then the modelled specimens are provided so that various configurations of tunnel cross sections and the neighboring joints were tested under uniaxial compression condition. This study showed that the tensile cracks are the most dominant mode occurred in these modelled samples. The wing cracks initiated from the joint tips when the joints interacted in a position less than that of the tunnel height. These cracks are then propagated and interacted with the tunnel ceiling. When the joint interacting the tunnel head and the interaction angle is negative the tunnel can be in a stable position considering the joints effect on its instability situation. But for positive interaction angles and the case of joint existing near the tunnel head, the wing cracks may initiate and propagate towards the tunnel ceiling. As the distance of joint from the tunnel ceiling is increased its effect on the tunnel instability is decreased because the failure stress is increased. The number of joints and their distance with the tunnel boundary (ceiling) have also a profound effect on the stability condition of the tunnel. The failure stress reached its maximum value for the increase from-30 to-60 degrees or increase from 30 to 60 degrees. The failure stress also decreased as the number of notches and their lengths increased. In all these interaction scenarios, the corresponding numerical and experimental values compared and it is concluded that the failure stresses are very close to each other which verified the accuracy and applicability of the proposed modeling technic.
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