Fusion of Hydraulic Tomography and Displacement Back Analysis for Underground Cavern Stability Investigation.

Autor: Gao, Xu, Yeh, Tian‐Chyi Jim, Yan, E‐Chuan, Wang, Wen‐ke, Cai, Jing‐Sen, Liang, Yue, Ge, Jian, Qi, Yue‐ming, Hao, Yong‐hong
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Zdroj: Water Resources Research; Nov2018, Vol. 54 Issue 11, p8632-8652, 21p
Abstrakt: This paper first elucidates the importance of hydraulic heterogeneity of a rock mass on the design of an underground water‐sealed storage cavern. It then introduces an information fusion approach that integrates hydraulic tomography, displacement back analysis, and a stochastic successive linear estimator to map spatially varying hydraulic conductivity (Ks), Young's modulus (E′), cohesion (c′), and internal friction angle (ϕ′). This algorithm yields statistically unbiased estimate of the Ks, E′, c′, and ϕ′ fields and their uncertainty due to insufficient samples of their heterogeneity. Afterward, this uncertainty is translated into the probability of failure distribution around the cavern for the risk assessment. Results show that heterogeneity of Ks plays an important role in the deformation and failure of the cavern. They also show that the proposed approach can reveal more detailed parameter distributions than kriging approach, based on a large number of samples of the parameters before excavations. Further, the predicted probability of failure distribution based on the proposed approach can effectively reflect the actual failure locations. Key Points: This paper elucidates the importance of hydraulic heterogeneity of a rock mass on the design of underground water‐sealed storage cavernsThis paper also proposes fusion approach that integrates HT and displacement back analysis to map spatially varying hydraulic and mechanical propertiesThe approach identifies the high‐risk instability location around the caverns [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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