A Top Pilot Tunnel Preconditioning Method for the Prevention of Extremely Intense Rockbursts in Deep Tunnels Excavated by TBMs |
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| Authors: | Chuanqing Zhang Xiating Feng Hui Zhou Shili Qiu Wenping Wu |
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| Institution: | (1) State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, People’s Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | The headrace tunnels at the Jinping II Hydropower Station cross the Jinping Mountain with a maximum overburden depth of 2,525 m,
where 80% of the strata along the tunnels consist of marble. A number of extremely intense rockbursts occurred during the
excavation of the auxiliary tunnels and the drainage tunnel. In particular, a tunnel boring machine (TBM) was destroyed by
an extremely intense rockburst in a 7.2-m-diameter drainage tunnel. Two of the four subsequent 12.4-m-diameter headrace tunnels
will be excavated with larger size TBMs, where a high risk of extremely intense rockbursts exists. Herein, a top pilot tunnel
preconditioning method is proposed to minimize this risk, in which a drilling and blasting method is first recommended for
the top pilot tunnel excavation and support, and then the TBM excavation of the main tunnel is conducted. In order to evaluate
the mechanical effectiveness of this method, numerical simulation analyses using the failure approaching index, energy release
rate, and excess shear stress indices are carried out. Its construction feasibility is discussed as well. Moreover, a microseismic
monitoring technique is used in the experimental tunnel section for the real-time monitoring of the microseismic activities
of the rock mass in TBM excavation and for assessing the effect of the top pilot tunnel excavation in reducing the risk of
rockbursts. This method is applied to two tunnel sections prone to extremely intense rockbursts and leads to a reduction in
the risk of rockbursts in TBM excavation. |
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