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An Assessment of the Excavation Damaged Zone in the KAERI Underground Research Tunnel  

Kim, Jin-Seop (한국원자력연구원 방사성폐기물기술개발부)
Kwon, Sang-Ki (한국원자력연구원 방사성폐기물기술개발부)
Cho, Won-Jin (한국원자력연구원 방사성폐기물기술개발부)
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Explosives and Blasting / v.27, no.1, 2009 , pp. 21-31 More about this Journal
Abstract
An excavation damaged zone (EDZ) is created by fracturing, excavation or stress redistribution of tunnels. In this zone the mechanical and hydraulic properties of rock are changed, which makes additional cracks and serves as a dominant pathway of groundwater flow. In this study, an assessment on an EDZ size was practiced by the measurement of the deformation modulus at the KAERI underground research tunnel (KURT), and the information was applied to the modelling analysis using FLAC2D software. The EDZ at KURT fell into the range of 0.6~1.8m and the deformation moduli of the EDZ generally correspond to about 40% of intact rock mass. With a consideration of the EDZ in numerical analysis, tunnel displacements increased by about 65% and the maximum principal stress decreased to 58% from the case without EDZ. The plastic zone of the tunnel was enlarged to the crown and invert zones of the tunnel within the range of the length of rock bolts. About 2% of the total tunnel displacement with EDZ was suppressed by the KURT support system. It is anticipated that the investigation of an EDZ can be used as an important and fundamental research for validating the overall performance of a high level waste disposal system.
Keywords
KURT; EDZ; Deformation modulus; Rock support; FLAC2D;
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