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Tianqi Zhang, Bangguo He, Zhitong Chen*, Gang Zheng, Chang Liu
Underground Space | 2026, 27 : 45 - 57
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Numerical simulation on progressive leakage in shield tunnel and corresponding mitigation
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Tianqi Zhang, Bangguo He, Zhitong Chen*, Gang Zheng, Chang Liu
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Published: 2026-04-10 doi: 10.1016/j.undsp.2025.10.006
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Leakage disasters in shield tunnels frequently occur, leading to severe consequences such as tunnel collapse, road collapse, and building destruction. Since it is difficult to record the accident evolution process onsite, it is necessary to reproduce it through credible numerical simulations. However, traditional numerical methods face technical bottlenecks when simulating water-sand inrush in shield tunnels due to challenges such as large deformation analysis and fluid-structure coupling, making it difficult to simulate the process of disaster progression. To address this issue, a Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) method incorporating seepage analysis, referred to as the S-CEL method, was proposed to simulate the interaction between water, soil, and a shield tunnel during a disaster. A refined three-dimensional numerical model was developed using the S-CEL method to simulate the water-sand inrush process. The generation sequence of new leakage points at the segment joints and the mechanisms driving the progression of the disaster were revealed. New leakage points were progressively generated along the longitudinal direction of the tunnel. As the number of leakage rings increased, the amount of soil loss increased rapidly. This led to severe uneven settlement and dislocation deformation of the tunnel. A channel steel was introduced to reinforce the tunnel in the numerical simulation to mitigate or decelerate the progression of the leakage disaster. The connection method between the channel steel and tunnel segments was found to be pivotal to the strengthening effect. Employing only bolt anchoring showed limited efficacy, while enhancing the segment-steel interface with epoxy resin achieved much better performance in mitigating disaster progression.

Leakage disaster  /  Water-sand inrush  /  Seepage Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (S-CEL)  /  Shield tunnel  /  Channel steel  /  Reinforcement  /  Epoxy resin
Tianqi Zhang, Bangguo He, Zhitong Chen, Gang Zheng, Chang Liu. Numerical simulation on progressive leakage in shield tunnel and corresponding mitigation[J]. Underground Space, 2026 , 27 : 45 -57 . DOI: 10.1016/j.undsp.2025.10.006
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(52478408; 52278406)
  • Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52421005)
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doi: 10.1016/j.undsp.2025.10.006
  • Receive Date:2025-06-15
  • Online Date:2026-06-17
  • Published:2026-04-10
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  • Received:2025-06-15
  • Revised:2025-09-21
  • Accepted:2025-10-08
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National Natural Science Foundation of China(52478408; 52278406)
Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52421005)
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    School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

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