Influence of rock spalling on concrete lining in shaft sinking at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory

幌延深地層研究所での立坑掘削における覆工コンクリートに対する岩盤崩落の影響

津坂 仁和; 稲垣 大介; 名合 牧人*; 小池 真史*; 松原 誠*; 菅原 健太郎*

Tsusaka, Kimikazu; Inagaki, Daisuke; Nago, Makito*; Koike, Masashi*; Matsubara, Makoto*; Sugawara, Kentaro*

原子力機構は、幌延深地層研究計画において、深度500mまでの3本の立坑(換気立坑1本とアクセス立坑2本)を建設する予定である。これまでに換気立坑の深度250m以深の施工にて、幾つかの深度にて岩盤壁面の崩落が生じ、その崩落個所の直上に構築した覆工コンクリートに開口き裂が生じた。筆者らは、この開口き裂の原因を調査するために、三次元レーザースキャナにより、岩盤壁面の崩落形状を計測するとともに、岩盤崩落を模擬した数値解析により、崩落個所周辺の覆工コンクリートと岩盤内の応力分布の変化を分析した。その結果、立坑壁面の岩盤崩落によって、その近傍に構築した覆工コンクリート内に引張応力が発達することが明らかとなった。また、崩落の奥行深さが100cm以上となると、覆工コンクリートの引張強度を上回る引張応力が生じる結果となった。これらの結果は、後続する2本のアクセス立坑の施工時の施工管理指標として活用している。

A repository for high-level radioactive waste in deep underground consists of several underground structures such as access and disposal drifts and shafts. In deep geological disposal project, a shaft is the first underground structure to be constructed and the last one to be backfilled. Therefore, the stability of shaft is one of key factors to steadily manage the project in the construction and operation phases. In this paper, the authors discuss influence of rock spalling on concrete lining in shaft sinking. Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been constructing three shafts (one is for ventilation and the others are for access use) up to a depth of 500 m in the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory. During the construction of the Ventilation Shaft (4.5 m in diameter) below a depth of 250 m, rock spalling occurred at several depths and an open crack has developed in a concrete lining installed just above rock spalling. The authors have measured geometry of shaft wall by using three-dimensional laser scanner. They also conducted numerical analysis in order to calculate change in stress distribution and deformation induced by rock spalling in a concrete lining and the surrounding rock. As a result, it was clarified that rock spalling induced tensile stress in the vertical direction in a concrete lining. Especially, the tensile stress in a concrete lining was likely to exceed tensile strength of a concrete lining in the case that it developed more than 100 cm in depth.