A Space-Time-Dependant Design Method and the Stability of Ice Wall for Deep Shafts

Abstract:

The mechanical properties of artificial frozen soils are the key for application of artificial ground freezing, (AGF) especially the creep characteristics of artificial frozen clay when a deep shaft is sunk by using AGF. Many catastrophic accidents took place in clay strata in deep freezing shafts past because of freezing tube breaking and flooding through ice wall caused by large creep deformation of ice wall. A new creep constitutive equation with separated variables for artificial frozen clay, after C. C. Vialov, is presented on base of testing data of most kinds of artificial frozen clay under the condition of drained system. On base of the new equation, a space-time- dependant design method, a modified C. C. Vialov’s, is proposed and has been successfully used for ice wall of deep shafts all over China since 1996. Finally, the stability of ice wall for deep shafts can economically and efficiently be controlled by adjusting the variables of temperature T, un-supported height h and time elapsed t according to their sensitivity or influence.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 204-208)
• Pages: 3275-3281
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.204-208.3275
• Online since: October 2012
• Authors: Xiang Sheng Chen*
• Keywords: Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF), Creep of Frozen Clay, Freezing Shaft, Space-Time-Dependant Design of Ice Wall, Stability of Ice Wall

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