| Mechanical and Civil Engineering |
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| Functional catastrophe analysis of collapse mechanisms for deep tunnels based on the Hoek-Brown failure criterion |
| Cheng-ping Zhang, Kai-hang Han, Qian Fang, Ding-li Zhang |
| MOE Key Lab of Urban Underground Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China |
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Abstract A reliable prediction of the characteristics of roof collapse in deep tunnels is still one of the most important and challenging tasks in tunnel engineering. To investigate the collapse mechanisms and possible shapes of the collapsing blocks in deep tunnels, an analytical solution of shape curves for collapsing blocks is derived based on the nonlinear Hoek-Brown failure criterion by using the functional catastrophe theory. The obtained formulas are extremely simple. Furthermore, a judging criterion is proposed to distinguish whether the roof collapses of deep tunnels will occur or not. The effects of rock mass parameters used in the proposed method on the collapsing block shapes of deep tunnels are also discussed. The proposed analytical solution is verified by both the empirical method and the model test.
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Received: 06 January 2014
Published: 04 June 2014
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