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Abstract
Compared with circular shield tunnels, quasi‐rectangular pipe‐jacking tunnels have the advantages of smaller construction disturbances and higher space utilization rates, which are widely applied in urban underground engineering. The carrying‐soil effect is a specific phenomenon during the construction of pipe‐jacking tunnels. To study the influence of carrying‐soil effect on the working face stability of a quasi‐rectangular pipe‐jacking tunnel, the collapse and blow‐out failure mechanisms of the working face are established on the basis of spatial discretization technique. By analysing the mechanical mechanism of the carrying‐soil effect, the upper bound solution of the critical chamber pressure of the working face that considers the carrying‐soil effect is obtained in this paper. Based on an actual project, the theoretical results are compared with the numerical results, proving the effectiveness of the proposed method. Furthermore, parametric analysis indicates that the jacking distance of the pipe‐jacking tunnel has a significant influence on the working face stability, while the influence of the frictional force between the soil and the pipe is relatively small.
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The journal welcomes manuscripts that substantially contribute to the understanding of the complex mechanical behaviour of geomaterials (soils, rocks, concrete, ice, snow, and powders), through innovative experimental techniques, and/or through the development of novel numerical or hybrid experimental/numerical modelling concepts in geomechanics. Topics of interest include instabilities and localization, interface and surface phenomena, fracture and failure, multi-physics and other time-dependent phenomena, micromechanics and multi-scale methods, and inverse analysis and stochastic methods. Papers related to energy and environmental issues are particularly welcome. The illustration of the proposed methods and techniques to engineering problems is encouraged. However, manuscripts dealing with applications of existing methods, or proposing incremental improvements to existing methods – in particular marginal extensions of existing analytical solutions or numerical methods – will not be considered for review.