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Viscoelastic–plastic stability analysis of large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnel under-passing box culvert

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With the widespread application of large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnels in urban road traffic engineering in China, higher requirements have been put forward to control the influence of their construction on the surrounding environment. To scientifically evaluate the stability of large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnels under-passing existing box culverts, we proposed a novel viscoelastic–plastic model coupling Biot consolidation with non-stationary parameter shear creep (NPSCBCVPM) to fully characterize the coupling effect of consolidation and rheology of saturated soft soil. NPSCCBVPM was developed in Fortran as an ABAQUS user material subroutine. In addition, the NPSCBCVPM was compared with the creep tests of undisturbed soft soil and the generalized Nishihara creep model (GNCM). Finally, the proposed model was applied to the large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnel under-passing existing box culverts of Songhu Road in Shanghai. The results show that NPSCBCVPM are in good agreement with the creep tests of soft soil, and NPSCBCVPM can better reflect the nonlinear rheological characteristics of soft soil than GNCM. Furthermore, the proposed model can scientifically evaluate the viscoelastic–plastic stability analysis of large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnel under-passing box culvert. Further research should focus on developing three-dimensional NPSCBCVPM to better evaluate the spatial response of the box culvert structure and surrounding soil to the entire construction process of large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnels.

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Acknowledgements

This work is financially supported by the Grants from Science and Technology Project of China Railway 20th Bureau Group Co., Ltd., China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20060390165). Hereby, we sincerely appreciated for the support of the monitoring data and design resource from Shanghai Municipal Engineering Construction Development Co., LTD.

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This work is financially supported by the Grants from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20060390165).

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Jiancong Xu: conceptualization, constitutive model development, data curation, investigation and writing—review and editing. Yijie Huang: numerical simulation and analysis, software and writing — original draft preparation.

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Xu, J., Huang, Y. Viscoelastic–plastic stability analysis of large-section quasi-rectangular pipe-jacking tunnel under-passing box culvert. Environ Earth Sci 83, 50 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11370-8

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