“…established the discrete element model of connecting aisle excavation of the same size, and studied the surface settlement during shield excavation and the particle coordination number in the soil before the excavation. Many other scholars have also done a lot of work in the field of construction technology and risks of connecting aisle (Pei and Tao, 2011;Pei et al, 2013;Han et al, 2015;Li et al, 2015;Li et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2020a;Wang et al, 2020b;Wu et al, 2020;Yuan et al, 2020;Zhang and Zhong, 2020;Yuan et al, 2021a;Yuan et al, 2021b;Dai and Hu, 2021;Du et al, 2021;Ting et al, 2021;Wang and Meng, 2021;Zhang et al, 2021;Yuan et al, 2022a;Yuan et al, 2022b;Yuan et al, 2022c;Kun et al, 2022;Liu et al, 2022;Pei et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022;Yang et al, 2022).…”