Improving the existing roadway tunnels capacity by adding new tunnels—a structural approach

AbdElrehim, Mostafa Zaki; Eid, Mohamed A.; Moshref, Osama

doi:10.1007/s12517-018-3435-4

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“…Meanwhile, the blast vibration waves may cause a decline in the bearing capacity of the rock [8,9] and some increases in the stress of the anchors [10], concurrently, the excavation damaged zone and deformation modulus of the surrounding rock is also influenced [11]. Recently, owing to the limited space in mountainous areas, small-spacing tunnels are becoming common [12], where the clearance between two tunnels is much shorter than the safe distance to alleviate vibration waves, such as Eurasia Tunnel [13], El-Azhar roadway twin tunnels [14], Liuyuetian bifurcation tunnel [15], Heshang three-lane tunnel [16], and closely spaced triple tunnels in Badaling [17]. Periodic non-uniform natural seismic wave excitation causes shear deformation in underground constructions [18].…”

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Study on Dominant Frequency Attenuation of Blasting Vibration for Ultra-Small-Spacing Tunnel

et al. 2022

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The middle rock pillar in ultra-small-spacing tunnels is significantly narrow, and the stability of the primary support and lining are easily influenced by the blasting vibration wave from an adjacent tunnel. Therefore, understanding the vibration frequency characteristics is essential for the blasting vibration control. Based on the blasting works on a double-track roadway tunnel (Jiuwuji tunnel in Guizhou, China), this study investigates the dominant frequency attenuation in the preceding tunnel with the middle rock pillar spacing ranging from 4.0 m to 9.4 m. The results show that the ranges of the dominant frequency distributions on the primary support and lining are widely within 200 Hz, but there are varieties in their propagation laws. The distribution of the dominant frequencies on the primary support is broader than that on the lining; and the dominant frequencies are concentrated on a specific range when the lining is far from the blast face beside a particular value, which is not present on the primary support. As the presence of cavity and changing medium between the lining and the primary support, it made a significant contribution to the filtering the vibration waves. Furthermore, on the primary support, the high-frequency part of the vibration waves attenuates rapidly with distance, and then, the practical prediction equations describing dominant frequency attenuation were proposed. The comparison on frequency characteristics per delay for the millisecond delay blasting shows that multiple delay sequences blast contributes to a multi-structured amplitude spectrum of blast vibration waves; and the varies of the equivalent explosion sources dimensions and numbers of free surfaces in each blast delay resulting in diverse vibration waveforms. Finally, the dominant frequencies determined by different methods were compared, and the results show a nonlinear relationship between the ZCFs and DFs. The above research conclusion expands the understanding of blasting vibration in tunnel engineering, particularly in the frequency distribution.

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