摘要:
A method of completing a tunnel excavation with a slurry shield type tunneling machine through a soft ground having a high water content or much gushing water, advancing the machine from the ground into a vertical shaft at, for example, a tunnel terminating point while preventing any ground collapse or gushing water at a vertical shaft wall finally excavated, and an apparatus for performing the method. A substantially ring-shaped liquid-tight packing means having an inner diameter large enough for passing therethrough the machine while maintaining a liquid-tight sealing around the outer periphery of the machine is provided at a position of a final tunnel port on a shaft wall at which the machine reaches the vertical shaft and along the inside surface of sheet piles struck in advance on the vertical shaft wall, a pressurized liquid chamber having substantially the same diameter as that of the packing means is formed in the vertical shaft so as to open on the packing means side, the liquid pressure in said chamber is kept at least as high as ground water pressure or ground pressure, the sheet pile is removed from the final port position, and the machine is then propelled to pass through the remaining ground layer and packing means and is receptacled in the pressure chamber. After back-filling around the final port is completed, the chamber and machine are removed.
摘要:
A method of and apparatus for starting a tunneling operation into a soft ground having a high water content or much gushing water while preventing any collapse of the ground or outflow of water. The tunneling machine is initially placed within a vertical shaft in the ground and a sheet pile is struck into the ground between a retaining wall of the shaft having a starting port through which the machine is to be ultimately advanced into the surrounding ground after the port is opened by raising the pile. A ring-shaped liquid-tight packing is applied to the retaining wall and surrounding the starting port engages the periphery of the head portion of the tunneling machine to form part of a liquid-pressurized chamber in front of the machine, the pressure in the chamber being at least as high as the surrounding underground water or ground pressure when the port is opened and the machine is then started through the port.