The resonance rubblization technology can be adopted to reconstruct old concrete pavement and eradicate reflection cracking. This method fractures pavement into fragments quickly and directly casts asphalt on fractures, shortening time cost of reconstruction. Previous studies about this technology mainly concentrated on asphalt-casting methods, and the quality, stiffness, and flatness of reco…
Resonant rubblization technology is often utilized to rehabilitate deteriorated condrete pavements. Vibrations induced by a resonant breaker would produce detrimental effects on lining structures in tunnel during rubblization construction. The in-situ experiments were carried out in Yangjiao Mountain Tunnel in Zheijiang Province, China. First, the characteristics of rubblization-induced vibrati…
Tunnelling underneath the existing tunnels are very common these days. It is obvious that the under-crossing tunnelling will affect and even damage the existing tunnels. An analytical method is proposed in this paper to better understand the effects of the under-crossing tunnelling on the existing tunnel. The existing tunnel is modeled as a Timoshenko beam lying on a Kerr foundation. The validi…
The thermal-mechanical behavior of tunnel lining segment plays a key role in governing its fire protection design. Existing models are mainly developed for the analysis nonlinear and non-elastic behavior of segment under fire, however the complexity of the model impede their application in engineering. In this study, a multilayer analytical model is proposed to describe the behavior of segmen…
The increasing number of twin-tunnels constructed in river-crossing subway traffic compels the designers to explore its dynamics performance in the excavation progress. The characteristics of particle accelerations of the granular medium in the surroundings are the important factors to reflect the excavation disturbance. In the construction process of the twin-tunnels, the excavation of the sec…
Deep buried drainage shield tunnels have the characteristics of large buried depth and high inner water pressure. The load effect of high inner water pressure and large earth pressure causes the increase of bending moment and decrease of axial force in the joint section. To meet the requirements of bearing capacity and deformation of lining structures, high stiffness segmental joints (HSSJs) wi…
A shell-spring finite element model of a special-shaped tunnel was established to investigate the distribution of internal forces and deformation mode of the lining at the designed buried depth. The numerical results were compared with prototype loading test results and uniform beam model, which showed that the shell-spring model can be an optimal model to calibrate the 3D distribution of the i…
Based on the mining case of Dafosi Coal Mine in Shaanxi Province, which is a typical coal mine with extra-thick coal seam, the effects of mining width, buried depth and rock grade on the ground surface deformation and sur-rounding rock stress have been studied by numerical experiments. It is found that both of the ground surface settlement (SS) and Horizontal Displacement (HD) increased with th…
The point extraction system (PES) is effective and popular especially for long and large cross-section tunnels. To clearly comprehend the fire characteristics on the cross-section and correctly apply the smoke strategy, we conduct a series of numerical Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations according to the dimensions of the South Hongmei Rd. tunnel, located in Shanghai, China. We set the…