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Blasting profile evaluation of sand-mud interbedded surrounding rock during the large-span tunnel construction
LongHao Ma1, Fei Lin2,3,4, Yanqiang Du5
1School of Civil Engineering, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, Henan, China.
Abstract:
The sand-mud interbedded surrounding rock contains discontinuities, such as horizontal bedding, joints, weak planes and weak interlayers. Drilling and blasting construction in this kind of surrounding rock is very likely to cause very serious over-/under-excavation phenomenon and excessive damage to surrounding rock, and the contour flatness after smooth blasting of the tunnel is also difficult to be guaranteed, which increases subsequent construction procedures and reduces production efficiency. In order to effectively evaluate the smooth blasting effect of the sand-mud interbedded surrounding rock tunnel, taking a tunnel project in southwest China as the research background, the blasting numerical simulation of the sand-mud interbedded surrounding rock tunnel was carried out using the dynamic analysis program, and the corresponding blasting optimization scheme was obtained. Subsequently, based on fuzzy mathematical theory, the evaluation system of blasting effect of sand-mud interbedded tunnel was established by combining the evaluation criteria of tunnel smooth blasting quality. Immediately afterwards, the weights of each influencing factor index were determined, and the blasting shaping effect of the original blasting scheme and the optimized blasting scheme was evaluated. Finally, the results have shown that the optimized tunnel blasting profile effect was better than the original blasting scheme. The corresponding research results have certain guiding significance for similar tunnel blasting effect evaluation and blasting parameter design.
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