Recovery of longitudinal deformational performance of shield tunnel lining by soil Grouting: A case study in Shanghai

Abstract

This paper presents a case study introducing the effect of soil grouting conducted to repair the longitudinal performance of shield tunnel in Shanghai. The maximum of cumulative settlement of the shield tunnel was approximately 15 mm with an averaged increasing rate as high as 0.50 mm/d caused by a new tunneling project underneath. The grouting reinforcement for soils under the invert of tunnel was thus carried out in the distorted section. A full process of deformational responses in terms of settlement and horizontal convergence to the grouting was measured to analyze the influence of grouting on performance recovery in the longitudinal direction. Volume-based grouting efficiency was defined for evaluating the contribution of grouting to structural deformation recovery. The results showed that the settlement is reduced linearly with the increasing of grouting volume. However, horizontal convergence increased during the grouting process and the maximum convergence increment was about 63 % of the magnitude of settlement reduction. Meanwhile, grouting efficiency was found to be relatively low. An average of 9.03 % of the grout volume is contributed to the recovery of settlement trough, while 2.75 % acted on the increase of convergence. Besides, continuous grouting can effectively recover tunnel settlement and remain a safe state.