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Influence of Pillar Width on the Stability of Twin Tunnels Using Scaled Model Tests

쌍굴터널 간 이격거리가 터널 안정성에 미치는 영향에 관한 모형실험 연구

  • Received : 2015.09.17
  • Accepted : 2015.10.05
  • Published : 2015.10.31

Abstract

Scaled model tests were performed to investigate the influence of pillar width, rock strength and isotropy/anisotropy on the stability of twin tunnels. Test models had respectively different pillar widths, uniaxial compressive strengths of modelling materials and model types, where both the deformation behaviors around tunnels and the biaxial pressure data at a time of pillar cracking were analysed. The cracking pressures of the higher strength models were higher than the lower strength models, whereas the percentage of cracking pressure to uniaxial compressive strength of modelling materials showed an opposite tendency. The cracking pressures of the shallower pillar width models were lower than the thicker models, moreover the percentage of that showed a same tendency. It has been found that the pillar width was one of the main factors influencing on the stability of twin tunnels. Model types such as isotropy/anisotropy also influenced on the stability of twin tunnels. The anisotropic models showed lower values of both cracking pressures and the percentage of that than the isotropic models, where the pillar cracks of anisotropic models were generated with regard to the pre-existing joint planes.

본 연구에서는 필러 폭과 모형재료의 강도가 서로 다른 등방성 및 이방성 암반 내 쌍굴터널의 모형실험을 통해 얻어진 터널의 변형과 필러부 균열이 발생한 이축압력 자료를 이용하여 터널 간 이격거리, 지반 강도, 등방성 및 이방성이 터널 안정성에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다. 모형재료의 일축압축강도에 대한 균열개시압력의 백분율을 균열개시압력비율이라고 정의할 경우, 강도가 큰 지반에 시공되는 쌍굴터널은 강도가 작은 지반에 비하여 균열개시압력 값은 크지만, 균열개시압력비율은 작게 나타났다. 이에 비해 필러 폭이 큰 쌍굴터널은 필러 폭이 작은 경우에 비하여 균열개시압력 값이 클 뿐 아니라 균열개시압력비율도 크게 나타나, 필러 폭은 쌍굴터널 안정성에 영향을 미치는 주된 요소로 판단된다. 지반의 등방성과 이방성 여부도 터널 안정성에 영향을 미쳤는데, 이방성 모형은 등방성 모형에 비해 균열개시압력과 균열개시압력비율이 작을 뿐 아니라 필러부에 존재한 기존 불연속면을 따라 균열이 발생하였다.

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