Rock and Soil Mechanics ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 1412-1419.doi: 10.16285/j.rsm.2019.0659

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Tunnel face stability analysis by the upper-bound finite element method with rigid translatory moving element in heterogeneous clay

YANG Feng1, 2, HE Shi-hua1, WU Yao-jie1, JI Li-yan1, LUO Jing-jing1, YANG Jun-sheng1, 2   

  1. 1. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410075, China; 2. Key Laboratory of Engineering Structure of Heavy Railway of Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410075, China
  • Received:2019-04-14 Revised:2019-07-05 Online:2020-04-11 Published:2020-07-02
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51878669)。

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Abstract: The upper-bound finite element method with rigid translatory moving elements (UBFEM-RTME) is further improved to optimise its suitability for analysing the stability in heterogeneous clay. The method is applied to investigate the stability of the tunnel face in undrained clay layer subjected to surface surcharge. The variation of stability load ?s /cu0 and the morphological characteristics and discipline of the effective discontinuities mechanism are obtained for various combinations of dimensionless buried depth ratio C/D, dimensionless gravity parameter ?D/cu0 and the heterogeneous parameter ?D/cu0. The results reveal that C/D and ?D/cu0 have a significant effect on ?s /cu0 and failure mechanism. ?D/cu0 has a great influence on ?s /cu0 but has little effect on failure mechanism. Furthermore, the UBFEM-RTME is used to show the changes of mesh failure modes under different mesh parameters such as the number and distribution of effective discontinuities, and the reasons for improving the accuracy of the upper bound solution are also explained. The applicability of UBFEM-RTME in heterogeneous clay, especially the analysis of failure mode under the limit state, is verified in comparison with the existing rigid-block upper-bound limit analysis methods and finite element bound method.

Key words: tunnel face stability, heterogeneous clay, upper-bound finite element, critical load, failure mechanism

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