Investigation on foundation pit uplift mechanism and tunnel response induced by deep excavation under complex support system: A case study

Keywords

Foundation pit / Modified Sagaseta displacement-controlled method / Jointed tunnel stiffness reduction / Three-dimensional numerical simulation / Case study

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Zhiguo Zhang: Data curation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Conceptualization, Investigation. Jian Wei: Writing - original draft, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation. Junjie Li: Methodology, Resources, Supervision. Linlong Mu: Methodology, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources. Wei Wo: Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Validation, Visualization, Project administration. Yin Ni: Validation, Methodology, Funding acquisition, Resources.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgement

The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52478402).

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