TUNNELING TECHNIQUES

CENG 7032

Dr.-Ing. Henok Fikre

2020
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COURSE CONTENT
 Concept
 Geotechnical Investigations
 Detailed design
 Design procedures
 Geometric Considerations
 Stress around openings
 Design methods
 Construction methods and procedures
 Post Construction Considerations
 Building Response Analysis
 Applications with software
 Case Histories
ROCK MECHANICS
GROUND RESPONSE ANALYSIS
 Tunnel induced
subsidence
 In practice a
widely used
method for the
prediction of
these tunnel
induced
settlements was
described by Peck
(1969)
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 Empirical methods for settlement damage prediction
 Burland and Wroth (1974) have defined several parameters for
building distortions which could lead to damaged structures,
- Settlements: vertical movement of the building;
- Differential or relative settlements: difference between 2 settlement
values;
- Rotation or slope; change in gradient of a line joining two points;
- Angular strain: the change in angle between two straight lines joining
two points of the building base;
- Relative deflection: the displacement of a point relative to a line
connecting two reference points on either side
- Deflection ratio (∆/L) : relative deflection divided by the length of the
structure;
- Tilt : rigid body rotation of the structure;
- Angular distortion or relative rotation : the rotation of the line joining
two points relative to the lift;
- Average horizontal strain: the change in length of corresponding
length of the building;
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 Empirical methods for settlement damage
prediction

(Tilt)

(Angular distortion)
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 Empirical methods for settlement damage
prediction
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 Tunnel induced subsidence
 Settlement in Transversal Direction

Ground level

Settelement
Limiting trough
line

Zone of
influence of
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 Settlement in Transversal Direction
• The vertical displacement, Uv is given by

• The parameter a (standard deviation) is to be determined by

adjustment to measurement (inflection point of the curve). It
can be estimated from the empirical formula :

• D is the diameter of the tunnel,

• H is the depth to the tunnel axis
• For clay soils a = 0.4H to 0.6H
• For non-cohesive soils a = 0.25H to 0.45H
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 Transversal Direction

 Alternative empirical

estimation of a:
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 Transversal Direction -horizontal displacement

• The horizontal displacement Uh of the ground-

surface follow from the observation that the
resultant displacement vectors are directed
towards the tunnel axis (O’Reilly et al. /1982)
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 Tunnel induced subsidence
 Transversal Direction - volume loss
• The volume of the settlement trough (per current
tunnel meter) results from the Gauss-distribution to
Vu = ∫uv(x)dx =
• The volume loss amounts to some percent of the tunnel
cross-section area per current meter.
• If the ratio (Vu/a) is known by experience for a given
soil type, then the maximum settlement uv,max can be
estimated.
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 Tunnel induced subsidence
 Settlements in longitudinal direction
• The longitudinal trough proceeds with the advancing TBM
and will have disappeared once the boring process is done.

 Reading assingment – determination methods and the extent of

damage caused in the longitudnal direction
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 Tunnel induced subsidence
 LTSM
• The current method used to predict the building
damage due to ground deformations is the
Limiting Tensile Strain Method (LTSM)
 This method is based on an uncoupled soil-
structure analysis, in which the building is
modelled as an elastic beam subject to imposed
greenfield settlements and the induced tensile
strains are compared with a limit value for the
material. This approach neglects many factors
which play an important role in the response of
the structure to tunneling induced settlements.
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 Steps for LTSM

1) Greenfield displacements
2) Projection of displacements on the building
3) Determination of the displacement parameters
4) Calculation of the building distortions
5) Combination of building distortions
6) Classification of the building damage
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 Steps for LTSM
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 Step 1

 The settlement profile can be divided into a

sagging part (concave curvature of settlement
profile) and a hogging part (convex curvature of
settlement profile).
 Theoretically the settlement profile goes to
infinity, in practice the 1mm settlement contour is
only accounted for since the for part of the
building outside this contour the risk of damage is
considered minimal
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 Step 1
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 Step 2
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 Step 3
 The considered building is modelled as a weightless,
isotropic, elastic, rectangular beam of length L and
height H and a material parameter E/G. H represents
the height of the building, measured from the
foundation level to the eaves, the roof structure is often
ignored. For a massive masonry wall an E/G ratio of
2.6 is often applied (Poisson ratio is 0.3).
 The greenfield displacements are applied to the beam,
this includes horizontal and vertical displacements of
the soil. Now the parameters mentioned in Paragraph
2.3 can be defined for further analyses
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 Step 3
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 Step 4

 Determine the bending strains

and shear (diagonal) strains in
the beam
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 Tunnel induced subsidence
 Step 4

 The building is modeled as a linear elastic beam

on two supports, loaded by a fictitious point load
in the middle of the beam, based on the work of
Timoshenko (1957).
 The horizontal strains are quite easy to determine,
the difference in horizontal displacement between
two sides of the beam is divided by the total length
of the beam:
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 Step 4

 Burland et al. (1974) presented the formulas for

the calculation of the bending and shear strains in
terms of the deflection ratio( ), using the formulas
introduces by Timoshenko (1957)
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 Step 4

 The deflection of the beam can be calculated by

the formula:
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 Step 4

 The first term of the equation represents the

deflection due to bending; the second term
represents the deflection due to shear
deformation. The form factor is added to correctly
represent the shear and bending contributions.
Originally the was defined as 1.5, but according to
Netzel (2009) this factor should be 1.2, which
would give a better approximation of the shear
and bending strains.
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 Step 4

 Maximum bending strains in the beam for

respective sagging and hogging, given interms of
deflection ratio:
 Maximum sagging bending strains:

 Maximum hogging bending strains:

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 Step 4

 For diagonal strain,

a) Maximum sagging diagonal strain

b) Maximum hogging diagonal strain:

o where
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 Step 5
 The governing strain in the building is a combination of the
above mentioned horizontal, bending and diagonal strains.
 The combination of strains can be combined to achieve two
values: the combination of maximum bending strain
combined with the average horizontal strain and the
maximum diagonal strain combined with the average
horizontal strain
 The first one can be determined using simple superposition;
the latter on can be determined using Mohr’s circle:
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 Step 6
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 Limitations of the LTSM
 The LTSM is based on major assumptions and
simplifications. It is said the LTSM leads to conservative
damage predictions while Netzel (2009) proved this is not
always the case. The most important assumptions and
simplifications are listed below:
 A completely decoupled method is chosen, no soil-
structure interaction is taken into account
 The building is represented as a linear elastic beam on
two supports. Non-linear behaviour such as stress and
stiffness redistribution is not taken into account. Brittle
behaviour and localized cracking are not taken into
account.
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GROUND RESPONSE ANALYSIS
 Tunnel induced subsidence
 Limitations of the LTSM
 It does not include other structures than masonry like
concrete structures, although Netzel (2009) proposed an
alternative for damage assessment on frame-like
structures.
 The settlement due to the (time dependent) longitudinal
settlement trough is not taken into account. The
longitudinal trough could introduce damage as well.
 Initial damage can only roughly be taken into account by
the reduction of tolerable strain limits, while different
damages can influence the behavior of buildings in
different ways.
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 Tunnel induced subsidence
 Numerical models
 The tunnel induced settlements can be modeled in a
numerical model. A soil model is adopted and within the soil
a tunnel is modeled.
 Modeling the soil can be done in several ways:
- Linear elastic isotropic soil conditions.
- Linear elastic soil with increasing Young’s modulus at
increasing depth.
- Non-linear elastic plastic soil
- Multi surface plasticity soil.
- Spring model
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 PROJECT 2
 Case Histories
 Tana Beles- Gr. 2 Getu
 Gilgel Gibe 1-Gr. 4 Abel
 Gilgel Gibe 2-Gr. 1 Mariamawit
 Gilgel Gibe 3 –Gr.3 Eskendir
 Awash Harawaria –Gr.5 Roza