Jie Su , Yuqiang Pan , Xiaokai Niu , Chengping Zhang
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Abstract
Shield tunneling in urban environments inevitably intersects with adjacent pile foundations, adversely affecting their internal forces and deformations. In this study, a series of model tests and numerical simulations were conducted to examine shield tunneling across pile foundations. The disturbance caused by shield tunnel excavation on the ground surface and pile foundations under different groundwater conditions was analyzed in detail. The results indicate that, compared to dry strata, shield tunneling in water-rich strata increases the maximum surface settlement by approximately 22 %, while also raising the axial force of pile foundations by 16 %–23 % and the lateral displacement of pile bodies at various depths by 15 %–28 %. Furthermore, as the pile foundation diameter increases, the absolute bending moment rises significantly. It is suggested that the pile-tunnel distance should be greater than 2 Dt in engineering design to greatly reduce the response of pile foundation.
期刊介绍:
Transportation Geotechnics is a journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, theoretical, and applied papers that cover all facets of geotechnics for transportation infrastructure such as roads, highways, railways, underground railways, airfields, and waterways. The journal places a special emphasis on case studies that present original work relevant to the sustainable construction of transportation infrastructure. The scope of topics it addresses includes the geotechnical properties of geomaterials for sustainable and rational design and construction, the behavior of compacted and stabilized geomaterials, the use of geosynthetics and reinforcement in constructed layers and interlayers, ground improvement and slope stability for transportation infrastructures, compaction technology and management, maintenance technology, the impact of climate, embankments for highways and high-speed trains, transition zones, dredging, underwater geotechnics for infrastructure purposes, and the modeling of multi-layered structures and supporting ground under dynamic and repeated loads.