The Yujingshan high-speed railway tunnel crosses a giant cavern system with a 108 × 10 4 m 3 volume chamber and an 18 km long underground river. The massive project, which lasted three years, was eventually awarded the “Overcoming the Challenges” award by the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association (ITA) in 2020. However, since the cave chamber was filled with large-scale rockfill, structural settlement is a non-negligible problem. This paper presents the unique structures of a bridge supporting railway tracks wrapped by tunnel lining and the settlement control of the Yujingshan tunnel crossing massive rockfill in the giant cave. The geological characteristics and design considerations are systematically introduced. A three-dimensional coupling discrete element method (DEM) and finite difference method (FDM) numerical model and 13 months of long-term settlement monitoring were conducted to evaluate the settlement behavior. The results indicate that the morphology of cavern and internal deposits caused the whole rockfill to migrate to the lower left. The tunnel structure consequently developed a significant inclined settlement. The continuous construction load would increase the settlement value by 31.4%. The bottom reinforcement of steel-pipe pile with grouting could effectively inhibit settlement and differential settlement. Considering the simulation results, the tunnel bottom had greater settlement than the limit standard for high-speed railway embankment, which means this special structure form is reasonable for operation. Meanwhile, the monitoring results show that the tunnel bottom settlement in D3K279+891~D3K279+947 had not performed an apparent convergence trend after 13 months. Further structural monitoring and compensation grouting should be actively considered for operation maintenance.


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    Title :

    Structures and Settlement Control of Yujingshan High-Speed Railway Tunnel Crossing Massive Rockfill in a Giant Karst Cave


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:
    Xie, Yipeng (author) / Yang, Junsheng (author) / Zhang, Cong (author) / Fu, Jinyang (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-12-12




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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