Simulation of stresses and contact surfaces of disk rolling cutters with the rock when sinking in mixed soils

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the crack propagation in the rocks during sinking depending on the distance between the cutters. Under the same conditions, the hard and soft rocks form various fracture networks that leads to uneven sinking and decrease in the efficiency of the tunneling machine. In order to study this issue, four ranges of distance between the contact surfaces and various incidence angles of the contact surface were selected. The study includes a system that is a mountain mass layout with a disk cutter the only parameter of which is the tip width or the contact width of the disk cutter with the end-type rock. Simulation of research conditions and finding a solution to the problem were performed using the Autodesk Inventor Nastran 3D simulation software.