In recent years,there has been an increased resort to microtunnelling/pipe-jacking as a means of constructing underground conduits(for water,sewage,gas,and other utilities)to avoid on-street disruption in urban areas....In recent years,there has been an increased resort to microtunnelling/pipe-jacking as a means of constructing underground conduits(for water,sewage,gas,and other utilities)to avoid on-street disruption in urban areas.In this paper,technical details of two 1200 mm internal diameter microtunnels in silty sand totalling over 550 m in length are discussed.While average skin friction values are extremely low for both drives suggesting effective lubrication practice,differences in normalised bentonite volumes appear to be responsible for differences in skin friction.Full or near full buoyancy of the pipeline has been demonstrated for the majority of the drive.The frictional stress increase after a stoppage is shown to depend on not only the stoppage duration but also on the normalised lubrication volume.Interpretation of data in the manner presented in the paper is an important means of assimilating experience of microtunnelling in different ground conditions.展开更多
基金The first author is funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme(IRC-EPS)Postgraduate Scholarship,with Ward and Burke Construction Limited as the industry partner.The third author is supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering(U.K.)under the Research Fellowship Scheme.
文摘In recent years,there has been an increased resort to microtunnelling/pipe-jacking as a means of constructing underground conduits(for water,sewage,gas,and other utilities)to avoid on-street disruption in urban areas.In this paper,technical details of two 1200 mm internal diameter microtunnels in silty sand totalling over 550 m in length are discussed.While average skin friction values are extremely low for both drives suggesting effective lubrication practice,differences in normalised bentonite volumes appear to be responsible for differences in skin friction.Full or near full buoyancy of the pipeline has been demonstrated for the majority of the drive.The frictional stress increase after a stoppage is shown to depend on not only the stoppage duration but also on the normalised lubrication volume.Interpretation of data in the manner presented in the paper is an important means of assimilating experience of microtunnelling in different ground conditions.
