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Characteristics of seismic disasters and aseismic measures of tunnels in Wenchuan earthquake

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Over the past few years, accompanied by big and frequent earthquakes, more attention was paid to the tunnel earthquake resistance. To reduce tunnel seismic damage and explore the reasonable aseismic measures, the tunnel earthquake disaster investigation was employed to analyze and summarize the tunnel seismic damage on the basis of Wenchuan earthquake. Fifty-two tunnels near the epicenter of Sichuan Province were investigated: Only 7 tunnels did not show structure damage, 6 tunnels suffered the most serious damage, and the rest appeared damage to various extents. It indicates that most serious seismic damage happens to fault fracture zone, followed by entrance and common section of the tunnel. Additionally, the results display that the typical seismic damage of tunnels is lining cracking, collapsing, dislocation, construction joints cracking, and uplifting of invert, and usually lining cracking and collapsing account for a larger proportion. Therefore, the tunnel aseismic design should emphasize the fault fracture zone and tunnel entrance. Tunnel design should adopt the composite lining structure with shock absorber and whole chain alternative grouting to prevent the lining cracking and collapsing in the seismic fortification zone.

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Acknowledgements

This work is financially supported by the Brainstorm Project on Social Development of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Department (Grant No. 2016SF-412) and the Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central Colleges of Chang’an University (Grant No. 310821172004, No. 310821153312, No. 310821165011).

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    Jinxing Lai, Siyue He, Junling Qiu, Jianxun Chen & Lixin Wang

  2. China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Co Ltd., Xi’an, 710043, China

    Lixin Wang & Ke Wang

  3. School of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710055, China

    Junbao Wang

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Lai, J., He, S., Qiu, J. et al. Characteristics of seismic disasters and aseismic measures of tunnels in Wenchuan earthquake. Environ Earth Sci 76, 94 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6405-3

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