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Design of initial support required for excavation of underground cavern and shaft from numerical analysis

  • Oh, Joung (School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales) ;
  • Moon, Taehyun (Geotechnical and Tunneling Division, HNTB) ;
  • Canbulat, Ismet (School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales) ;
  • Moon, Joon-Shik (Department of Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
  • Received : 2017.04.25
  • Accepted : 2019.03.20
  • Published : 2019.04.30
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Abstract

Excavation of underground cavern and shaft was proposed for the construction of a ventilation facility in an urban area. A shaft connects the street-level air plenum to an underground cavern, which extends down approximately 46 m below the street surface. At the project site, the rock mass was relatively strong and well-defined joint sets were present. A kinematic block stability analysis was first performed to estimate the required reinforcement system. Then a 3-D discontinuum numerical analysis was conducted to evaluate the capacity of the initial support and the overall stability of the required excavation, followed by a 3-D continuum numerical analysis to complement the calculated result. This paper illustrates the application of detailed numerical analyses to the design of the required initial support system for the stability of underground hard rock mining at a relatively shallow depth.

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