Abstract

Large deformations can easily occur when tunneling through weak surrounding rock with high underground stresses. Under high-stress environments, the surrounding rock stores a large amount of strain energy, and the strain energy stored in the soft and weak surrounding rock enclosure is dissipated through the large traveling plastic deformation. Therefore, the effective use of the surrounding rock’s bearing capacity and energy dissipation is a feasible solution to the large deformation problem. Based on the energy principle, this study designs a high compressibility, large stroke energy-dissipation element, which transforms the traditional support into energy-dissipation support and solves the problem of large deformation by reasonably utilizing the “displacement” of the surrounding rock. The experimental results showed that the steel plate assembled structure had an initial peak value of about 15 MPa, a constant resistance of about 2 MPa with a large stroke, and a compression rate of more than 75%, with good post-compression flexural peak characteristics. Elastic–plastic buckling analyses of defective steel plate composite structures were carried out using finite element analysis software, and the deformation and force characteristics of a variety of steel plate composite structures after buckling under actual field conditions were investigated. Based on the 3D laser scanning system, the thickness of the upper and lower steel plates of the steel plate composite structure was set to 1 cm, the height of the vertical plate was set to 28 cm, and the thickness was set to 8 mm. The original rigid supporting method was converted into one of compression support by circumferentially embedding the steel plate composite structure into the initial support structure. The resulting support configuration offered a high safety factor because the pressure of the surrounding rock was released by the deformation of the steel plate composite structure.

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