Tunnel-Pile Interaction Analysis Using Cavity Expansion Methods
This article has a reply.
VIEW THE REPLYThis article has a reply.
VIEW THE REPLYPublication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 138, Issue 10
Abstract
Evaluation of the impact of tunnel construction on existing buried structures is an important problem. This paper presents an analytical method for estimating the effect of tunnel construction on end-bearing piles located above the tunnel. The method can be used to estimate the safe relative distance between existing piles and newly constructed tunnels. Spherical and cylindrical cavity expansion/contraction analyses are used to evaluate pile end-bearing capacity and the reduction of confining pressure at the pile tip that results from tunnel volume loss. Pile end-bearing capacity is then reevaluated based on the reduced confining pressure at the pile tip. A modified shear modulus is used to account for the effect of pile installation on soil stiffness. The method is used to analyze centrifuge experiments conducted to study this problem. For the experimental data, where the service load applied to the piles during tunnel volume loss ranged between 50 and 60% of the maximum jacking force, the analytical method showed that pile failure occurred when the load-carrying capacity was reduced below 80% of its original value. A parametric analysis is included that highlights the effect of key soil properties on results.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
Acknowledgments
The author would like to acknowledge financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust—Kenneth Sutherland Memorial Scholarship.
References
Attewell, P. B., Yeates, J., and Selby, A. R. (1986). Soil movements induced by tunnelling and their effects on pipelines and structures, Blackie and Son, London.
Bezuijen, A., and Van der Schrier, J. (1994). “The influence of a bored tunnel on pile foundations.” Proc., Int. Conf., Centrifuge ’94, C. F. Leung, F. Lee, and T. Tan, eds., Balkema, Singapore, 681–686.
Bolton, M. D. (1986). “The strength and dilatancy of sands.” Geotechnique, 36(1), 65–78.
Bolton, M. D. (1987). “Discussion on the strength and dilatancy of sands.” Geotechnique, 37(2), 219–226.
Chen, L. T., Poulos, H. G., and Loganathan, N. (1999). “Pile responses caused by tunneling.” J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., 125(3), 207–215.
Cheng, C. Y., Dasari, G. R., Chow, Y. K., and Leung, C. F. (2007). “Finite element analysis of tunnel-soil-pile interaction using displacement controlled model.” Tunn. Undergr. Space Technol., 22(4), 460–466.
Fleming, W., Weltman, A., Randolph, M. F., and Elson, W. (1992). Piling engineering, 2nd Ed., Blackie and Son, Glasgow, U.K.
Franzius, J. N., Potts, D. M., and Burland, J. B. (2006). “The response of surface structures to tunnel construction.” Proc. Inst. Civil Eng. Geotech. Eng., 159(1), 3–17.
Jacobsz, S. W. (2002). “The effects of tunnelling on piled foundations.” Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, U.K.
Jacobsz, S. W., Standing, J. R., Mair, R. J., Hagiwara, T., and Sugiyama, T. (2004). “Centrifuge modelling of tunnelling near driven piles.” Soil Found., 44(1), 49–56.
Kitiyodom, P., Matsumoto, T., and Kawaguchi, K. (2005). “A simplified analysis method for piled raft foundations subjected to ground movements induced by tunnelling.” Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech., 29(15), 1485–1507.
Klar, A., and Marshall, A. M. (2008). “Shell versus beam representation of pipes in the evaluation of tunneling effects on pipelines.” Tunn. Undergr. Space Technol., 23(4), 431–437.
Klar, A., Vorster, T. E. B., Soga, K., and Mair, R. J. (2005). “Soil-pipe interaction due to tunnelling: Comparison between Winkler and elastic continuum solutions.” Geotechnique, 55(6), 461–466.
Lee, C. J., and Jacobsz, S. W. (2006). “The influence of tunnelling on adjacent piled foundations.” Tunn. Undergr. Space Technol., 21(3–4), 430.
Lo Presti, D. (1987). “Mechanical behaviour of ticino sand from resonant column tests.” Ph.D. thesis, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Mair, R. J., Taylor, R. N., and Bracegirdle, A. (1993). “Subsurface settlement profiles above tunnels in clays.” Geotechnique, 43(2), 315–320.
Marshall, A. M. (2009). “Tunnelling in sand and its effect on pipelines and piles.” Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, U.K.
Marshall, A. M., Farrell, R., Klar, A., and Mair, R. J. (2012). “Tunnels in sands the effect of size, depth, and volume loss on greenfield displacements.” Geotechnique, 62(5), 385–399.
Marshall, A. M., Klar, A., and Mair, R. J. (2010). “Tunneling beneath buried pipes—A view of soil strain and its effect on pipeline behavior.” J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., 136(12), 1664–1672.
Marshall, A. M., and Mair, R. J. (2011). “Tunneling beneath driven or jacked end-bearing piles in sand.” Can. Geotech. J., 48(12), 1757–1771.
Meguid, M. A., and Mattar, J. (2009). “Investigation of tunnel-soil-pile interaction in cohesive soils.” J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., 135(7), 973–979.
Morton, J. D. and King, K. H. (1979). “Effects of tunnelling on the bearing capacity and settlement of piled foundations.” Proc. Tunnelling '79, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London, 57–68.
Mroueh, H., and Shahrour, I. (2002). “Three-dimensional finite element analysis of the interaction between tunneling and pile foundations.” Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech., 26(3), 217–230.
Potts, D. M., and Addenbrooke, T. I. (1997). “A structure’s influence on tunneling-induced ground movements.” Proc. Inst. Civil Eng., Geotech. Eng., 125(2), 109–125.
Poulos, H. G., and Deng, W. (2004). “An investigation on tunnelling-induced reduction of pile geotechnical capacity.” Proc., 9th Australia New Zealand Conf. on Geomechanics, Vol. 1, New Zealand, Geotechnical Society & Australian Geomechanics Society, Auckland, New Zealand, 116–122.
Randolph, M. F., Dolwin, J., and Beck, R. (1994). “Design of driven piles in sand.” Geotechnique, 44(3), 427–448.
Vorster, T. E. B., Klar, A., Soga, K., and Mair, R. J. (2005). “Estimating the effects of tunneling on existing pipelines.” J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., 131(11), 1399–1410.
White, D. J., and Bolton, M. D. (2004). “Displacement and strain paths during plane-strain model pile installation in sand.” Geotechnique, 54(6), 375–397.
White, D. J., Take, W. A., and Bolton, M. D. (2003). “Soil deformation measurement using particle image velocimetry (PIV) and photogrammetry.” Geotechnique, 53(7), 619–631.
Yu, H. S. (2000). Cavity expansion methods in geomechanics, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Yu, H. S., and Houlsby, G. T. (1991). “Finite cavity expansion in dilatant soils: Loading analysis.” Geotechnique, 41(2), 173–183.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 138 • Issue 10 • October 2012
Pages: 1237 - 1246
Copyright
© 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Aug 2, 2011
Accepted: Feb 7, 2012
Published online: Feb 9, 2012
Published in print: Oct 1, 2012
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.