Abstract

AbstractTo relieve congestion on the S‐Bahn main line in Munich (urban railway), a second main line is being built over a length of 10 km, with more than 7 km of tunnels and three new underground stations. These new stations at Hauptbahnhof, Marienhof and Ostbahnhof each have a length of about 250 m and are located at depths of up to 45 m. The stations mostly have a central staircase, which will be constructed using the top‐down method with building pits enclosed by diaphragm walls. The platform tubes subsequently constructed using NATM, with a 40 m wide cross‐section consisting of five tubes, have an overall excavation cross‐section of approx. 450 m2. This paper presents the evaluation of the calculated building settlements due to a construction process comprising groundwater drawdown, building pit construction, platform tubes constructed using NATM, traffic tunnels constructed using TBM, and the exploration and rescue tunnel located between the two traffic tunnels, using the Marienhof West station as an example. To perform the evaluation it is necessary to superpose all settlements arising from the different construction stages for each structure, which in some case are calculated across planners and construction sections. From these superposed calculated settlements, the corresponding angular distortions are calculated according to the type of curvature, i.e. concave type or spandrel type of settlement, and compared with the permissible limit values.

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