Abstract
During excavation of a shield tunnel in a sandy stratum, variations in the state of the sand affect the stratum stability of the shield tunnel face. When dense sand is loaded, its strength decreases gradually owing to dilatancy and it exhibits strain-softening behavior. Model tests and finite element numerical simulations were performed to clarify the failure characteristics of the tunnel face induced by strain-softening. In the model tests, a dense sand stratum was constructed; the movement of the supporting plate of the excavation face was controlled to simulate the progressive failure of the shield tunnel face. Based on a material state-dependent plasticity model, a numerical analysis model of the tunnel face was established to capture the strain-softening behavior of dense sand by including a nonlocal regularization technique. Comparing the model test and numerical simulation results, the evolution of the material state of the sand with progressive failure of the tunnel face was analyzed, and the failure characteristics caused by the strain-softening of sand were revealed.
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