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- Title
Statistical Analysis of Influence of Cover Depth on Loess Tunnel Deformation in NW China.
- Authors
Hu, Zhao; Du, Ke; Lai, Jinxing; Xie, Yongli
- Abstract
Loess is a kind of special soil with structure and hydrocollapse behavior; due to the particularity of loess, the deformation regularity of the tunnel in loess shows different characteristics from those in rock. To ensure the safety of construction, crown settlement (CS) and horizontal convergence (HC) are widely used to assess the stability of the tunnel structural system. Based on statistical analysis, this study focused on analyzing the influence of cover depth on the deformation of surrounding rock of loess tunnels by ANOVA, and relationships between them were presented by regression analysis. The achieved results indicated that the influence of cover depth on deformation was not obvious in shallow tunnels, while the cover depth had a significant effect on deformation in deep tunnels. Based on the difference of influence of cover depth on deformation between shallow tunnels and deep tunnels, a method for determining the cover depth threshold (CDT) in the tunnel by statistical analysis was proposed. The horizontal and vertical deformations in shallow tunnels were discrete and obeyed the positive distribution, mainly concentrated within 200 mm. The deformation allowance in shallow tunnels was recommended to be 200 mm. In deep tunnels, as the cover depth increased, the deformation increased linearly, while the CS/HC decreased.
- Subjects
LOESS; DEFORMATION of surfaces; TUNNEL operations; TUNNELS; ROCKS
- Publication
Advances in Civil Engineering, 2019, p1
- ISSN
1687-8086
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2019/2706976