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A Study on mechanical behaviour of support elements induced by shaft sinking

Tsusaka, Kimikazu; Inagaki, Daisuke; Hatsuyama, Yoshihiro*; Koike, Masashi*; Shimada, Tomohiro*; Ijiri, Yuji*

Japan Atomic Energy Agency has excavating three deep shafts through soft sedimentary rock at Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory. In this paper, the author discussed change in stress and the stress distribution in a concrete lining and steel arch sets induced by the 6.5 m diameter shaft sinking. They conducted not only field measurements of stress in support elements at around 220 m in depth but also three-dimensional numerical analysis which models the shaft excavation procedure such as timing of installation of support elements and setting and removal of a concrete form. As a result, it was clarified that more than 10 MPa difference in circumferential stress occurred in a 2 m high and 400 mm thick concrete lining due to anisotropy of initial stress and three-dimensional effect of an excavation face. It was also found that a concrete lining gradually deformed from an original cylindrical form to an "oval salad bowl" form with the long axis pallarel to the direction of the minimum horizontal principal stress after a concrete form was removed.

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