Effect of Partially Imperfect Interface on Dynamic Response of a Circular Lined Tunnel in an Elastic Half-Space Subjected to Plane SH Waves
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 22, Issue 10
Abstract
Loose zones and voids often exist behind the crown and the spandrel of a tunnel, and the interface between a tunnel lining and its surrounding medium is therefore partially debonded. To elucidate the partially imperfect interface effect on the dynamic response of tunnel, an analytical solution is derived for the scattering of plane shear horizontal (SH) waves by a circular lined tunnel with such an interface in a half space using wave function expansion and a piecewise integration method. A systemic parametric analysis based on the Xianglu Mountain Tunnel is conducted in a frequency domain. It is found that the effect of the spring model and the noncontact boundary model in simulating the partially imperfect interface is identical when the interface spring coefficient in spring model is small enough. The increment in the degree of interface imperfection (i.e., decreasing the interface spring coefficient or increasing the range of partially imperfect interface) tends to weaken the dynamic stress concentration factor (DSCF) but often intensifies displacements at the crown and spandrel of tunnel under SH waves at relatively high frequencies. The wave-trapping effect of the interface illustrated in the time domain is found to be the major mechanism for the partially imperfect interface modifying the stress and displacement fields in tunnel lining.
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All data, models, and code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52078184) and the key science and technology special program of Yunnan province (Grant No. 202102AF080001).
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Volume 22 • Issue 10 • October 2022
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Received: Dec 8, 2021
Accepted: May 15, 2022
Published online: Jul 21, 2022
Published in print: Oct 1, 2022
Discussion open until: Dec 21, 2022
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Construction engineering
- Construction methods
- Continuum mechanics
- Displacement (mechanics)
- Dynamic response
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Elastic analysis
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Geometry
- Geotechnical engineering
- Half space
- Linings
- Mathematics
- Models (by type)
- Seismic waves
- Shear waves
- Simulation models
- Solid mechanics
- Structural analysis
- Structural engineering
- Structural mechanics
- Tunnels
- Waves (mechanics)
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