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A simplified analysis for deformation behavior of buried pipelines considering disturbance effects of underground excavation in soft clays

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Underground excavation, such as tunneling and deep foundation pit, will no doubt induce the soil disturbance and have result in uneven settlements of adjacent buried pipelines which adversely affect and even damage the structures. In order to explicitly point out construction interaction mechanism and rapidly predict the structure mechanical behavior, a simplified displacement-controlled two-stage method and stress-controlled two-stage method are presented for determining the deformation behavior of pipeline structures caused by underground excavation in soil clays. According to tunneling project, the free soil deformation calculated by the displacement-controlled boundary element solution is used to estimate the soil disturbance effects of underground excavation. The oval-shaped ground deformation pattern is imposed to the tunnel opening to consider the nonuniform convergence characters. According to foundation pit project, the free soil stress based on the Mindlin solution is used to predict the soil disturbance effects of underground excavation. The situations that the excavation unloading center is not acting on the pipeline axis and that the excavation boundary and pipeline axis are formed with an arbitrary angle can fully be considered. Then, the free soil deformation and free soil stress are imposed onto existing pipelines to analyze the interaction mechanics between the disturbance soil and buried structures. The accuracy of proposed method is demonstrated with existing calculation results, centrifuge model tests, and site investigation data. In addition, the parametric analyses for the deformation influence factors of existing tunnel induced by foundation pit excavation, including the horizontal distance between the excavation boundary and tunnel axis, the tunnel buried depth, the tunnel bending stiffness, and the crossing angle between the excavation boundary and tunnel axis, are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method. The results indicate that the proposed method can be used to estimate the mechanical behavior of buried pipelines considering disturbance effects of underground excavation with higher precision.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51008188 and No. 41172238), the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (No. 15ZR1429400), the Open Project Program of State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (No. SKLGP2015K015), and the Key Laboratory Fund for Mechanics on Disaster and Environment in Western China (Supported by Ministry of Education, No. 201202).

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  1. Associated Professor, Postdoctor, School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 516 Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200093, China

    Zhiguo Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China

    Zhiguo Zhang & Qihua Zhao

  3. Key Laboratory of Mechanics on Disaster and Environment in Western China, Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Zhiguo Zhang

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Mengxi Zhang

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Zhang, Z., Zhang, M. & Zhao, Q. A simplified analysis for deformation behavior of buried pipelines considering disturbance effects of underground excavation in soft clays. Arab J Geosci 8, 7771–7785 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-014-1773-4

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