Interlayer soil settlement prediction in the construction of under-crossing existing structures based on multi-parameter time series model

Abstract

Predicting surface settlement can identify potential risks associated in shield construction. However, in the construction of under-crossing existing structures, the surface settlement is minimal due to the high stiffness of the existing structure, making it unsuitable as a basis for risk assessment. Therefore, interlayer soil settlement was used as an evaluation index in this paper, which was predicted by the developed multi-parameter time series (MPTS) model. This model establishes new dataset, including time, effective stress ratio (ESR), mechanical fluctuation coefficient (MFC), and interlayer soil settlement, where ESR and MFC take into account the changing geological conditions. This study proposes a novel MPTS model, integrating grid search (GS), nonlinear particle swarm optimization (NPSO), and support vector regression (SVR) algorithms to predict interlayer soil settlement during under-crossing construction. It utilizes GS and NPSO to obtain the optimal hyperparameters for SVR. Sensitivity analysis based on MPTS model was used to identify important parameters and propose specific improvement measures. A real under-crossing tunnel project was adopted to verify the effectiveness of the MPTS. The results show that the new input parameters proposed in this paper reduce mean absolute error (MAE) by 20.3% and mean square error (MSE) by 46.7% of prediction results. Compared with the other three algorithms, GS-NPSO-SVR has better prediction performance. Through Sobol sensitivity analysis, previous settlement, ESR and MFC in fully weathered mudstone and moderately weathered mudstone are identified as the primary parameters affecting the interlayer soil settlement. The improvement measures based on analysis results reduce the accumulated settlement by 79.97%. The developed MPTS model can accurately predict the interlayer soil settlement and provide guidance for water stopping or reinforcement construction.

Keywords

Interlayer soil settlement / Under-crossing construction / Multi-parameter time series model / Sensitivity analysis

Data availability

All raw data used in the training can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387974212_Data_availability?channel=doi&linkId=6785bea71afb4e11f5e51bd5&showFulltext=true.

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Boyu Jiang: Methodology, Writing - original draft, Formal analysis. Haibin Wei: Project administration, Funding acquisition. Dongsheng Wei: Resources, Software. Zipeng Ma: Resources, Writing - review & editing. Fuyu Wang: Validation, Visualization.

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

Authors acknowledge that this work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51578263); China Railway 22 Bureau Group Track Engineering Co., Ltd. is gratefully acknowledged for generously providing the experimental platform. The anonymous reviewers' constructive comments are also cordially appreciated.

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