摘要：

By analyzing surrounding rock instability caused by tunnel excavation, surrounding rock instability of deep-buried tunnels is considered as a sudden failure phenomenon, which possesses nonlinearity and discontinuity obviously and shows the uncertainty of mechanical deformation property, nonlinearity of constitutive relationship and catastrophe of failure process. Based on the total potential energy principle, the cusp catastrophic model for instability and failure of deep-buried tunnel surrounding rock is established. Through the observed data of settlement values of typical section vault of deep-buried tunnel and the sudden threshold values of displacement of each monitoring section, the variable values of vault settlement function are obtained, and the stability of deep surrounding rock in tunnel is decided. The result accords with surrounding rock of practical construction, it not only offers references for preventing instability and failure of deep-buried tunnels, but also gives an important guidance for reasonable construction technique of supporting measures.