TY - JOUR
T1 - Risky Ground Prediction ahead of Mechanized Tunnel Face using Electrical Methods
T2 - Laboratory Tests
AU - Park, Jinho
AU - Ryu, Jinwoo
AU - Choi, Hangseok
AU - Lee, In Mo
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant (Project number: 13SCIP-B066321-01 (Development of Key Subsea Tunneling Technology)) from the Infrastructure and Transportation Technology Promotion Research Program funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Korean government. The corresponding author thanks Korea University for granting him sabbatical leave in order to concentrate on this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Korean Society of Civil Engineers and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - An accurate determination of the ground condition ahead of a tunnel face is key to stable excavation of tunnels using a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM). This study verifies the effectiveness of using the Induced Polarization (IP) method along with electrical resistivity for identifying hazardous ground conditions ahead of a tunnel face. The advancement of the TBM toward a fault zone, seawater bearing zone, soil-to-rock transition zone, and mixed-ground zone is artificially modeled in laboratory-scale experiments. The IP and resistivity are assumed to be measured at the tunnel face, whenever the excavation is stopped to assemble one ring of a segmental lining. The measured IP showed completely different trends from the measured resistivity and varies with the type of hazardous zone. As the TBM approached the fault zone, transition zone, and mixed ground, the IP values were observed to be constant, increasing, and fluctuating, respectively. Therefore, a more reliable prediction of the ground condition ahead of a tunnel face can be achieved by using the IP and resistivity methods together. A table that can be used to predict the ground conditions based on the afore-mentioned methods is presented in this paper for use in mechanized tunneling job sites.
AB - An accurate determination of the ground condition ahead of a tunnel face is key to stable excavation of tunnels using a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM). This study verifies the effectiveness of using the Induced Polarization (IP) method along with electrical resistivity for identifying hazardous ground conditions ahead of a tunnel face. The advancement of the TBM toward a fault zone, seawater bearing zone, soil-to-rock transition zone, and mixed-ground zone is artificially modeled in laboratory-scale experiments. The IP and resistivity are assumed to be measured at the tunnel face, whenever the excavation is stopped to assemble one ring of a segmental lining. The measured IP showed completely different trends from the measured resistivity and varies with the type of hazardous zone. As the TBM approached the fault zone, transition zone, and mixed ground, the IP values were observed to be constant, increasing, and fluctuating, respectively. Therefore, a more reliable prediction of the ground condition ahead of a tunnel face can be achieved by using the IP and resistivity methods together. A table that can be used to predict the ground conditions based on the afore-mentioned methods is presented in this paper for use in mechanized tunneling job sites.
KW - electrical resistivity
KW - ground condition
KW - induced polarization
KW - tunnel boring machine
KW - tunnel face
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U2 - 10.1007/s12205-018-1357-z
DO - 10.1007/s12205-018-1357-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042594980
SN - 1226-7988
VL - 22
SP - 3663
EP - 3675
JO - KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
JF - KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
IS - 9
ER -