土压平衡盾构施工中泡沫改良砂土的试验研究

土压平衡盾构在隧道施工中,特别在地铁区间隧道施工中已经得到广泛应用。土压平衡盾构主要适用于粘性土地层开挖,其在砂土地层的掘进过程中通常会遇到掌子面土压平衡难以形成、螺旋出土器无法正常排土、刀盘扭矩过大及刀具磨损过快等一些问题。最有效的解决方法是使用泡沫等添加剂对土体进行改良,但是目前工程施工现场添加剂的使用尚存在一定的盲目性。文章首先通过自制的试验室发泡装置生产泡沫,并对泡沫的性能与发泡剂溶液浓度的关系进行研究,为有效使用泡沫提供依据,并通过一系列试验研究泡沫对砂土的改良效果,得到适合土压平衡盾构施工的优化泡沫掺入比。

Soil Conditioning for Earth-Pressure Balanced Shields Excavation in Sand Layers

Earth Pressure Balanced(EPB) TBMs are extensively used for excavation of urban tunnels.But many difficulties are encountered during excavation through sand layers,such as the difficulty of setting up balance pressure in tunnel face,sending the extracted soil in screw conveyor,too high torque of the machine cutter head,high cutter and cutter head wear and so on.At present,the soil conditioning method is used to overcome these difficulties.However,the use of additives,such as foam,is not generally based on th...