A method of safety monitoring and measurement of overall frost heaving pressure of tunnel in seasonal frozen area

Abstract

Antifreeze design, scientific operation, and maintenance of tunnels with broken surrounding rock in seasonal frozen areas are key factors that affect the safety of tunnel. According to a freezing damage treatment project, theoretical analysis, field monitoring, and numerical simulation are used to study the calculation method of the overall frost-heaving pressure of a tunnel with broken surrounding rock in the seasonal frozen area. Based on the overall frost-heaving model of the broken freeze–thawing lithosphere, a calculation method of the overall frost-heaving pressure of the horseshoe-shaped tunnel with broken surrounding rock in a seasonal frozen area is proposed. The results show that the management grading results based on the freezing depth of the surrounding rock on site are consistent with those based on the minimum safety factor of the lining structure, which indicates that the proposed method for calculating the overall frost-heaving pressure of broken surrounding rock tunnel and management standards for safety monitoring and measurement of tunnel linings can be applied to engineering practice. The research results can provide a reference for the calculation of frost-heaving pressure, operational safety, and prevention of freezing damages in tunnels with broken surrounding rock in a seasonal frozen area.

Keywords

• tunnel engineering
• frost-heaving pressure
• safety monitoring and measurement
• calculation method
• frost damages