scholarly journals Deformation Forecasting of Surrounding Rock Mass Based on Correlation between Frequency and Fracture Scale of Microseismicity

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Peiwei Xiao ◽  
Bo Qian ◽  
Peng Jiang ◽  
Nuwen Xu ◽  
Biao Li
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Frequency Characteristics ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Macroscopic Deformation ◽  
Frequency Components ◽  
Microseismic Events ◽  
Statistical Sample ◽  
Fracture Scale

The macroscopic deformation and failure of engineering rock mass may occur as a result of evolution and breakdown of its internal microfracture. Therefore, the macroscopic state of rock mass can be obtained from fracture scale of microfracture in real time. To assess instability and predict macroscopic deformation and failure of engineering rock mass, a time-frequency analysis technique based on S transform was proposed to investigate microseismic waveform and reveal the correlation between macroscopic deformation failure and microseismic frequency characteristics of engineering rock mass in combination with fracture scale. To minimize the influence of external factors on parameters calculated, a significant amount of microseismic data from three large-scale hydropower projects in southwestern China was collected as the statistical sample. The analysis of correlation between fracture scale and frequency characteristics of microseismic events was carried out based on the statistical sample. Combining with microseismic data and multipoint extensometers in the underground powerhouse of the Houziyan hydropower station, engineering verification was conducted. The result shows that the high-frequency components decrease and microseismic signals display low-frequency characteristic as the fracture scale increases; the microseismic high-frequency components decreased at first and then increased during the deformation process of surrounding rock mass, and the frequency of microseismic events shifts from high band to a lower one before deformation.

scholarly journals Stability Evaluation on Surrounding Rocks of Underground Powerhouse Based on Microseismic Monitoring

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Dai ◽  
Biao Li ◽  
Nuwen Xu ◽  
Yongguo Zhu ◽  
Peiwei Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Microseismic Monitoring ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Underground Powerhouse ◽  
Multiple Faults ◽  
Routine Monitoring ◽  
Underground Caverns ◽  
Macroscopic Deformation ◽  
Microseismic Events ◽  
The Stability

To study the stability of underground powerhouse at Houziyan hydropower station during excavation, a microseismic monitoring system is adopted. Based on the space-time distribution characteristics of microseismic events during excavation of the main powerhouse, the correlation between microseismic events and blasting construction is established; and the microseismic clustering areas of the underground powerhouse are identified and delineated. The FLAC3D code is used to simulate the deformation of main powerhouse. The simulated deformation characteristics are consistent with that recorded by microseismic monitoring. Finally, the correlation between the macroscopic deformation of surrounding rock mass and microseismic activities is also revealed. The results show that multiple faults between 1# and 3# bus tunnels are activated during excavation of floors V and VI of the main powerhouse. The comprehensive method combining microseismic monitoring with numerical simulation as well as routine monitoring can provide an effective way to evaluate the surrounding rock mass stability of underground caverns.

scholarly journals Key Factors Affecting the Deformation and Failure of Surrounding Rock Masses in Large-Scale Underground Powerhouses

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Meng Wang ◽  
Jia-wen Zhou ◽  
An-chi Shi ◽  
Jin-qi Han ◽  
Hai-bo Li
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Rock Masses ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Underground Powerhouse ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Geological Conditions

The stability of the surrounding rock masses of underground powerhouses is always emphasized during the construction period. With the general trends toward large-scale, complex geological conditions and the rapid construction progress of underground powerhouses, deformation and failure issues of the surrounding rock mass can emerge, putting the safety of construction and operation in jeopardy and causing enormous economic loss. To solve these problems, an understanding of the origins and key affecting factors is required. Based on domestic large-scale underground powerhouse cases in the past two decades, key factors affecting the deformation and failure of the surrounding rock mass are summarized in this paper. Among these factors, the two most fundamental factors are the rock mass properties and in situ stress, which impart tremendous impacts on surrounding rock mass stability in a number of cases. Excavation is a prerequisite of surrounding rock mass failure and support that is classified as part of the construction process and plays a pivotal role in preventing and arresting deformation and failure. Additionally, the layout and structure of the powerhouse are consequential. The interrelation and interaction of these factors are discussed at the end of this paper. The results can hopefully advance the understanding of the deformation and failure of surrounding rock masses and provide a reference for design and construction with respect to hydroelectric underground powerhouses.

scholarly journals Deformation and Failure Analyses of the Surrounding Rock Mass with an Interlayer Shear Zone in the Baihetan Underground Powerhouse

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Fei Yuan ◽  
An-chi Shi ◽  
Jia-wen Zhou ◽  
Wang-bing Hong ◽  
Meng Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Shear Deformation ◽  
Shear Zone ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Underground Powerhouse ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Interlayer Shear

In the process of underground cavern excavation, the existence of the interlayer shear zones or large faults often makes the surrounding rock tend to be unstable or even deformed. Under the influence of interlayer shear zone C2, different degrees of deformation and failure occurred in many parts during the excavation of the Baihetan left bank underground powerhouse. Based on field monitoring and numerical calculation, this paper studies the deformation and failure characteristics of the rock mass with C2 in the whole excavation process and the failure mechanisms are analyzed. The results show that C2 has poor mechanical properties. In the process of excavation, it mainly induces two failure modes: rock collapse and shear deformation, which specifically leads to rock collapses, large deformation and shotcrete cracking in the main powerhouse, and shear deformation in the omnibus bar caves. In addition, the similarities and differences between this study and other studies on the deformation and failure of surrounding rock of underground powerhouse in recent years are discussed, and the relevant treatment measures for C2 are given. The above research results can be a reference for other related studies.

Numerical Analysis of Damage for Y-Shape Tunnel

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 2517-2520
Author(s):  
Da Ming Lin ◽  
Yan Jun Shang ◽  
Guo He Li ◽  
Yuan Chun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Rock Mass ◽  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Plastic Zone ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Single Beam ◽  
Flac 3D

There are many effective researches about tunnel at home and abroad, because the complexity of design and construction for Y-shape tunnel, in public there is no research about it yet, with the background of nanliang-tunnel which merge two single-beam into a two-lane tunnel as Y-shape. This paper obtains the rock mass mechanics parameters on the basis of nonlinear Hoek-Brown criterion first, and has a numerical simulation according the tunnel construction with FLAC-3D. we arrange many monitor sections in this model and discuss the law of deformation and failure in different section, at last have a comprehensive analysis of displacement, stress, plastic zone of different sites which caused by tunnel construction and discover that: with the distance of two single tunnels decreased, the interaction caused by the merging increase together with the compressive stress, tensile stress. The displacements of surrounding rock increase corresponding, the amplitude of variation is up to 44.8%, After the two-lane tunnel is 15m long, the stress and displacements redistribution of surrounding rock become stable.

scholarly journals Numerical Analysis of the Effect of Heterogeneity on Underground Roadway Stability under Dynamic Loads

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Tao Guo ◽  
Hao Feng ◽  
Zequan Sun ◽  
Yang Zhao ◽  
Xingyu Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Dynamic Load ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Dynamic Loads ◽  
Loading Conditions ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Roadway Stability ◽  
Rock Mass Failure ◽  
The Stability

With the increasing depth of coal mining and expanding mining scale, the rocks surrounding deep roadways are in a complex mechanical condition of frequent dynamic disturbance. The heterogeneity has an important influence on rock mass failure under dynamic loads. Therefore, it is necessary to study the deformation and failure of heterogeneous roadway under dynamic load. In this paper, the effect of heterogeneity on stability of roadway under static and different dynamic loads is studied. According to the results, the effect of rock mass heterogeneity on the deformation and failure of surrounding rock varies with different degrees of heterogeneity. Under static loading conditions, the stability of roadway is negatively correlated with the degree of heterogeneity of the rock mass. Under dynamic loading conditions, the change of heterogeneity degree has significant influence on the stability of surrounding rock. With the increase in dynamic load strength, the change in variation difference in the average value of roof sag, stress distribution, and plastic zone caused by variations in heterogeneity will increase. This study contributes to understanding the deformation and failure characteristics of heterogeneous roadways under dynamic loads and can be used to analyze heterogeneous roadways under dynamic loads.

A Single-Ended Transient Based Voltage Protection Method of UHVDC Transmission Line which Distinguishes the Opposite Side’s Internal and External Fault with Protectors

2013 ◽  
Vol 291-294 ◽  
pp. 2244-2249
Author(s):  
Shi Long Chen ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Jia Wei Xie ◽  
Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Line ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Simulation Experiment ◽  
Frequency Characteristics ◽  
Transient Signal ◽  
Protection Method ◽  
Frequency Components

The paper studied the frequency characteristics of UHVDC transmission line and UHVDC transmission line boundary and their attenuation to high frequency components of fault-generated transient signal. The paper points out that existing approaches which utilize protectors to distinguish local side’s internal or external fault can’t protect the whole line. UHVDC transmission line and UHVDC transmission line boundary’s attenuation to high frequency fault-generated transient signal is overall considered, and a single-ended transient based voltage protection method which distinguishes the opposite side’s internal and external fault is proposed. The Yunnan-Guangdong UHVDC model of actual parameters was built up by PSCAD, and simulation experiment was conducted.

scholarly journals Stability Analysis of the Left Bank Slope of Baihetan Hydropower Station Based on the MF-DFA Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Haoyu Mao ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Biao Li ◽  
Nuwen Xu
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Multifractal Spectrum ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Bank Slope ◽  
Spectrum Width ◽  
Baihetan Hydropower Station ◽  
Rock Mass Deformation ◽  
Mass Deformation

Based on the left bank slope of Baihetan hydropower station in Southwestern China, a high-precision microseismic monitoring system was established. An early warning model of surrounding rock mass deformation and failure based on MF-DFA was proposed. The results showed that the multifractal characteristics of the microseismic and blasting waveform time series in the left bank slope were obvious, and the multifractal spectrum width of the blasting waveform is much larger than that of microseismic waveform. Before the slope cracks increased, the multifractal time-varying response characteristics of microseismic waveform showed strong regularity, which could be regarded as a precursor of surrounding rock mass deformation. Before the deformation and failure of surrounding rock mass, the multifractal spectrum width Δα showed an increasing trend while the multifractal spectrum of microseismic waveforms Δf(α) presented a decreasing trend, which can be regarded as a precursor of surrounding rock mass deformation; when deformation and failure occurred, Δα showed a decreasing trend and Δf(α) showed an increasing trend, which can be regarded as a deformation failure period; after the occurrence of deformation and failure, both Δα and Δf(α) showed a steady trend, and Δf(α) would approach to the zero line, which can be regarded as a stable period.

scholarly journals Deformation and failure analysis of surrounding rock mass in deep buried tunnels subjected to excavation

2021 ◽  
Vol 861 (4) ◽  
pp. 042078
Author(s):  
Linlu Dong ◽  
Peiwei Xiao ◽  
Xingguo Yang ◽  
Biao Li ◽  
Haoyu Mao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Deformation And Failure

scholarly journals Research on the Law of Large-Scale Deformation and Failure of Soft Rock Based on Microseismic Monitoring

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Chen ◽  
Tianhui Ma ◽  
Chun’an Tang ◽  
Yanhong Du ◽  
Zhichao Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Soft Rock ◽  
Microseismic Monitoring ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
Microseismic Events ◽  
Rock Tunnel ◽  
Microseismic Event

Based on the existing Canadian ESG microseismic monitoring system, a mobile microseismic monitoring system for a soft rock tunnel has been successfully constructed through continuous exploration and improvement to study the large-scale nucleation and development of microfractures in the soft rock of the Yangshan Tunnel. All-weather, continuous real-time monitoring is conducted while the tunnel is excavated through drilling and blasting, and the waveform characteristics of microseismic events are analysed. Through the recorded microseismic monitoring data, the variation characteristics of various parameters (e.g., the temporal, spatial, and magnitude distributions of the microseismic events, the frequency of microseismic events, and the microseismic event density and energy) are separately studied during the process of large-scale deformation instability and failure of the soft rock tunnel. The relationship between the deterioration of the rock mass and the microseismic activity during this failure process is consequently discussed. The research results show that a microseismic monitoring system can be used to detect precursors; namely, the microseismic event frequency and energy both will appear “lull” and “active” periods during the whole failure process of soft rock tunnel. Two peaks are observed during the evolution of failure. When the second peak occurs, it is accompanied by the destruction of the surrounding rock. The extent and strength of the damage within the surrounding rock can be delineated by the spatial, temporal, and magnitude distributions of the microseismic events and a microseismic event density nephogram. The results of microseismic analysis confirm that a microseismic monitoring system can be used to monitor the large-scale deformation and failure processes of a soft rock tunnel and provide early warning for on-site construction workers to ensure the smooth development of the project.

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