隧道爆破产生振动波的有限元分析S. Valliappan.pdfVIP

Rock Mechanics Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 21, 53--78 (1988) and Rock Engineering 9 by Springer-Verlag 1988 Finite Element Analysis of Vibrations Induced by Propagating Waves Generated by Tunnel Blasting By S. Valliappan 1and K. K. Ang2 1 School of Civil Engineering, The University of New South Wales z Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore Summary The excavation of underground tunnels close to existing substructures or the ground surface presents problems especially when blasting is being carried out. The high intensity waves which are generated and propagated through the rock medium, due to the detonation of explosives, may still have large amplitudes when they reach the ground surface. In order to study the vibration effects due to these propagating waves associated with blasting, a finite element simulation of tunnel blasting has been carried out in this paper. An example of a new tunnel excavated below an existing tunnel has been studied. Even though this problem is three dimensional in nature, due to the large computational efforts involved in three dimensional dynamic analysis, a two dimensional finite element analysis has been adopted. A pseudo-plane strain concept has been used since it has been found that the results obtained using such an approach are more realistic than the conventional plane strain analysis. It is concluded that results from such a numerical analysis could compliment the fiel