Investigates building settlement response to shield tunnel construction, highlighting influencing factors.
Shield tunnel construction inevitably disturbs existing upper buildings. This paper takes the section from Zhongyi Road Station to Housihu Fourth Road Station of Wuhan Metro Line 12 as the engineering background, where twin shield tunnels pass beneath Zizhu Kindergarten. Based on field monitoring data, this paper systematically analyzes the development laws of surface settlement and building settlement. Numerical simulation is adopted and compared with measured data to verify the reliability of the model. With the validated numerical model, this paper investigates the influencing factors of building settlement. The results show that the maximum ground surface settlement during shield construction is approximately 6.84 mm, and the maximum building settlement is about 4.63 mm. The horizontal relative position between piles and tunnels changes the superposition mode of ground settlement troughs. Building settlement reaches the minimum when twin tunnels pass beneath symmetrically. Eccentric crossing aggravates building settlement to a certain extent. The maximum building settlement increases with the rise of tunnel buried depth. The research results can provide a reference for deformation control and construction optimization of similar twin shield tunnels crossing beneath buildings with piled-raft foundations.
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