Construction of a cavern under an autobahn embankment for the Ceneri Base Tunnel / Unterquerung eines Autobahndamms durch eine Kaverne beim Ceneri-Basistunnel
Author(s): |
Raffaele Filippini
Kalman Kovári Francesco Rossi |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2012, n. 2, v. 5 |
Page(s): | 175-185 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201200014 |
Abstract: |
The driving of a cavern with large dimensions with little cover under an autobahn embankment while preserving road safety results in challenging design and construction problems. The embankment is filled against a mountainside and is founded on an intermediate layer of loose ground several metres thick above the rock. The acute angle between the centreline of the cavern and the autobahn and the rock boundary made for a markedly three-dimensional structure. The chosen concept for the tunnel structure has the following features: top heading advance with previously concreted abutments to support the shotcrete temporary lining under the protection of a double jet grout canopy. Each concrete abutment is also supported on a foundation body formed of jet grout columns, so that the loading on the vault is transferred directly into the undisturbed rock. The face of the top heading with an excavated area of up to 160 m² is supported partially by passive steel anchors and partially by reinforced jet grout columns. The maximum surface settlements of the carriageway resulting from the driving of the top heading and the bench/invert were only 35 mm. |
Keywords: |
face stability excavation phases abutment heading setting columns concrete abutments jetgrout canopy surface settlements
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