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http://dx.doi.org/10.9711/KTAJ.2021.23.6.403

Groundwater control measures for deep urban tunnels  

Jeong, Jae-Ho (SYTEC. Co., Ltd.)
Kim, Kang-Hyun (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Konkuk University)
Song, Myung-Kyu (Dept. of Business Technology Team, HYUNDAI E&C.)
Shin, Jong-Ho (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Konkuk University)
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Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association / v.23, no.6, 2021 , pp. 403-421 More about this Journal
Abstract
Most of the urban tunnels in Korea, which are represented by the 1st to 3rd subways, use the drainage tunnel by NATM. Recently, when a construction project that actively utilizes large-scale urban space is promoted, negative effects that do not conform to the existing empirical rules of urban tunnels may occur. In particular, there is a high possibility that groundwater fluctuations and hydrodynamic behavior will occur owing to the practice of tunnel technology in Korea, which has mainly applied the drainage tunnel. In order to solve the problem of the drainage tunnel, attempts are being made to control groundwater fluctuations. For this, the establishment of tunnel groundwater management standard concept and the analysis of the tunnel hydraulic behavior were performed. To prevent the problem of groundwater fluctuations caused by the construction of large-scale tunnels in urban areas, it was suggested that the conceptual transformation of the empirical technical practice, which is applied only in the underground safety impact assessment stage, to the direction of controlling the inflow in the tunnel, is required. And the relationship between the groundwater level and the inflow of the tunnel required for setting the allowable inflow when planning the tunnel was derived. The introduction of a tunnel groundwater management concept is expected to help solve problems such as groundwater fluctuations, ground settlement, depletion of groundwater resources, and decline of maintenance performance in various urban deep tunnel construction projects to be promoted in the future.
Keywords
Urban tunnelling; Groundwater drawdown; Inflow rate; Multi-boundary seepage behavior;
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