Determining the location and boundary of underground obstructions and/or anomalies is a common problem and often a great chal-lenge for tunneling and underground construction.In this study,geotechnical investigations(...Determining the location and boundary of underground obstructions and/or anomalies is a common problem and often a great chal-lenge for tunneling and underground construction.In this study,geotechnical investigations(penetration tests and borehole drilling/sam-pling)and geophysical investigations(surface wave method and cross-hole seismic method)were conducted with the aim of identifying the location and boundary of rock obstructions in Changi East,Singapore.The surface wave method is frequently used in the sites with lateral homogeneity in previous studies,but its application in the sites with rock obstructions is rare.The experimental results of this study indicate that the surface wave method is also able to determine the upper surface of rock obstructions,but difficult to identify the lateral and bottom boundaries of rock obstructions.To improve the precision of detection,the full waveform inversion(FWI)method was used to process the data from the cross-hole seismic survey.The results indicate that the inversion precision of P-wave is higher than that of S-wave.The horizontal and vertical ranges of rock obstructions in the P-wave inversion results are 14–26 m and 7.5–11.0 m respectively,roughly consistent with the results of penetration tests(about 15–25 m)and borehole log(8.85–10.80 m).This result proves that the sequential application of first-arrival time analysis and FWI can effectively delineate the boundary of rock obstruc-tions.Finally,the results of various detection methods were analyzed and compared in this study.Considering the advantages of various methods,we propose a cost-effective and high-precision workflow containing both geotechnical and geophysical investigations.展开更多
The failure to achieve minimum design overlap between secant piles compromises the ability of a structure to perform as designed,resulting in water leakage or even ground collapse.To establish a more realistic simulat...The failure to achieve minimum design overlap between secant piles compromises the ability of a structure to perform as designed,resulting in water leakage or even ground collapse.To establish a more realistic simulation and provide guidelines for designing a safe and cost-effective secant-pile wall,a three-dimensional model of a secant pile,considering the geometric imperfections of the diameter and direction of the borehole,is introduced.An ultrasonic cross-hole test was performed during the construction of secant piles in a launching shaft in Beijing,China.Based on the test results,the statistical characteristics of the pile diameters and orientation parameters were obtained.By taking the pile diameter D,inclination angleβ,and azimuth angleαas random variables,Monte Carlo simulations were performed to discuss the influence of different design parameters on the probability density functions of the overlap of secant piles.The obtained results show that the randomness of the inclination angle and pile diameter can be well described by a normal distribution,whereas the azimuth angle is more consistent with a uniform distribution.The integrity of the secant-pile wall can be overestimated without considering the uncertainty of geometric imperfections.The failure of the secant-pile wall increases substantially with increasing spatial variability in drilling inclination and diameter.A design flowchart for pile spacing under the target safety level is proposed to help engineers design a safe and economical pile wall.展开更多
基金support from China Scholarship Council(CSC)(Grant No.201906260173)the National Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,China(Grants No.BK20221148)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Grant No.XJ2021008101).
文摘Determining the location and boundary of underground obstructions and/or anomalies is a common problem and often a great chal-lenge for tunneling and underground construction.In this study,geotechnical investigations(penetration tests and borehole drilling/sam-pling)and geophysical investigations(surface wave method and cross-hole seismic method)were conducted with the aim of identifying the location and boundary of rock obstructions in Changi East,Singapore.The surface wave method is frequently used in the sites with lateral homogeneity in previous studies,but its application in the sites with rock obstructions is rare.The experimental results of this study indicate that the surface wave method is also able to determine the upper surface of rock obstructions,but difficult to identify the lateral and bottom boundaries of rock obstructions.To improve the precision of detection,the full waveform inversion(FWI)method was used to process the data from the cross-hole seismic survey.The results indicate that the inversion precision of P-wave is higher than that of S-wave.The horizontal and vertical ranges of rock obstructions in the P-wave inversion results are 14–26 m and 7.5–11.0 m respectively,roughly consistent with the results of penetration tests(about 15–25 m)and borehole log(8.85–10.80 m).This result proves that the sequential application of first-arrival time analysis and FWI can effectively delineate the boundary of rock obstruc-tions.Finally,the results of various detection methods were analyzed and compared in this study.Considering the advantages of various methods,we propose a cost-effective and high-precision workflow containing both geotechnical and geophysical investigations.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51978040 and 51378054)the National Basic Research Program of China(973 program,No.2015CB057800)for supporting this research.
文摘The failure to achieve minimum design overlap between secant piles compromises the ability of a structure to perform as designed,resulting in water leakage or even ground collapse.To establish a more realistic simulation and provide guidelines for designing a safe and cost-effective secant-pile wall,a three-dimensional model of a secant pile,considering the geometric imperfections of the diameter and direction of the borehole,is introduced.An ultrasonic cross-hole test was performed during the construction of secant piles in a launching shaft in Beijing,China.Based on the test results,the statistical characteristics of the pile diameters and orientation parameters were obtained.By taking the pile diameter D,inclination angleβ,and azimuth angleαas random variables,Monte Carlo simulations were performed to discuss the influence of different design parameters on the probability density functions of the overlap of secant piles.The obtained results show that the randomness of the inclination angle and pile diameter can be well described by a normal distribution,whereas the azimuth angle is more consistent with a uniform distribution.The integrity of the secant-pile wall can be overestimated without considering the uncertainty of geometric imperfections.The failure of the secant-pile wall increases substantially with increasing spatial variability in drilling inclination and diameter.A design flowchart for pile spacing under the target safety level is proposed to help engineers design a safe and economical pile wall.
