Comparison of indirect boundary element and finite element methods A case study: Shiraz-Esfahan railway tunnel in Iran

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Comparison of indirect boundary element and finite element methods A case study: Shiraz-Esfahan railway tunnel in Iran

Amin MANOUCHEHRIAN(

), Mohammad Fatehi MARJI, Mohsen MOHEBBI

Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Department, Yazd University, Yazd 89195, Iran

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Abstract

Because of the high importance of transportation tunnels, most precise analyses of stress concentration and displacement around them are essential to provide safety of them as much as possible. Recently, various numerical methods such as finite element method (FEM), discrete element method (DEM), finite difference method (FDM) and boundary element method (BEM) have been used extremely in geosciences problems, but among these numerical methods, BEM has been used less than others because the computational algorithm is not so straightforward. This paper suggests the implementation of the indirect boundary element method (IBEM) as a formulation of BEM to analyze displacement around Shiraz-Esfahan railway tunnel in Zagros Mountains southwest of Iran. For this purpose, this tunnel has been modeled numerically using two-dimensional fictitious stress method (TWOFS) algorithm. To validate the results, they were compared with FEM results as a commonly used numerical method. Results of current theoretical study have shown that the presented approach using IBEM is reasonably accurate and can be used for analysis of displacement in geosciences problems. In rock mechanics, for problems with a low ratio of boundary surface to volume, FEM is not very well suited and may be cumbersome, but use of such a proposed IBEM approach can be particularly attractive.

Keywords indirect boundary element method finite element method displacement tunnel case study

Corresponding Author(s): MANOUCHEHRIAN Amin,Email:amin.manouchehrian@gmail.com

Issue Date: 05 December 2012

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Amin MANOUCHEHRIAN,Mohammad Fatehi MARJI,Mohsen MOHEBBI. Comparison of indirect boundary element and finite element methods A case study: Shiraz-Esfahan railway tunnel in Iran[J]. Front Struc Civil Eng, 0, (): 385-392.

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Fig.1 Discretization in 2D with: a) BEM and b) FEM

Fig.2 Location of the tunnel

Fig.3 Tunnel cross section

Fig.4 The longitudinal section of the tunnel

Tab.1 Rock mass classification through the tunnel path

Tab.2 Geomechanical parameters of rocks

Fig.5 (a) Finite plate and (b) infinite plate

Fig.6 Tunnel schematic geometry modeled in TWOFS

Fig.7 Vertical and horizontal displacement in the invert from IBEM

Fig.8 Vertical and horizontal displacement on the side walls from IBEM

Fig.9 Vertical and horizontal displacement at the roof from IBEM

Fig.10 Mesh and geometry adopted in the FEM simulation

Fig.11 Vertical displacement around the tunnel from FEM

Fig.12 Horizontal displacement around the tunnel from FEM

Fig.13 Comparison of the results from IBEM and FEM

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