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Assessing and controlling of boulder deep-hole blasting-induced vibrations to minimize impacts to a neighboring metro shaft

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When a metro is constructed by the shield method in the strata containing boulder group, it is prone to some engineering problems such as serious cutter wear, deformation of the cutter holder head, damage of the cutter spindle, which seriously affects the construction efficiency and bring enormous problems to the shield construction. This paper proposes the vibration reduction measures for the boulder deep-hole blasting to meet the construction safety. To achieve this purpose, the field test was applied to investigate the vibration response of adjacent building under five blasting areas. Then, three-dimensional numerical model was employed to discuss the vibration characteristics of the boulder and adjacent buildings under vibration reduction measures. The results show that increasing the damping hole and the isolation hole and changing the charging layout of the blasting areas can blast the boulder under the condition of ensuring effective and safe construction. Damping hole and isolation hole have a positive role in the control and attenuation of blasting stress wave. All of them have good vibration reduction effect, and the vibration reduction efficiency is more than 90%. The double row damping holes with 12.7 cm diameter and 20 cm spacing have good vibration reduction effect and economic benefit. When double row damping holes are used, the maximum particle velocity of the shaft structure under the influence of blasting stress wave is 1.47 cm/s, which is within the reasonable safety range.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful for the funding from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0802202), the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51878572) and Sichuan Science and Technology Program (19ZDYF2709).

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This study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0802202), the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51878572) and Sichuan Science and Technology Program (19ZDYF2709).

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    Zhiqiang Zhang, Yonglong Li, Shuo Wang, Heng Zhang & Yang Qian

  2. Key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China

    Zhiqiang Zhang, Yonglong Li, Shuo Wang, Heng Zhang & Yang Qian

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ZZ carried out the theorical analysis. YL carried out the field test. SW carried out the numerical simulation and wrote the article. HZ offered useful suggestions for the preparation and writing of the paper. YQ processed the data.

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Zhang, Z., Li, Y., Wang, S. et al. Assessing and controlling of boulder deep-hole blasting-induced vibrations to minimize impacts to a neighboring metro shaft. Archiv.Civ.Mech.Eng 21, 66 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43452-021-00220-8

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