Analysis of Grinding and Chipping Processes beneath Disc Cutters of Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines (Case study: Uma-Oya water Conveyance Tunnel, SriLanka)

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Pourhashemi Seyed Mahdi; Ahangari Kaveh; Hassanpour Jafar; Eftekhari Seyyed Mosleh

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Journal: JOURNAL OF MINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES) Year:2021 | Volume:12 | Issue:1 Page(s): 281-297

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Analysis of Grinding and Chipping Processes beneath Disc Cutters of Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines (Case study: Uma-Oya water Conveyance Tunnel, SriLanka)

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Pourhashemi Seyed Mahdi | Ahangari Kaveh | Hassanpour Jafar | Eftekhari Seyyed Mosleh | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

Grinding and chipping phenomena

Tunnel boring machine penetration rate

Tunnel boring machine performance

Numerical modeling

Artificial neural networks

Abstract

Mechanized tunneling in rocks is based on fracture propagation and rock fragmentation under disc cutters. Rock chipping is an efficient kind of fragmentation process, while the grinding process may occur under special conditions. The cutterhead penetration is an appropriate parameter involved in order to distinguish between the chipping and grinding processes in rock cutting. In this work, the grinding and chipping processes are investigated in the Uma-Oya water conveyance tunnel in Sri Lanka. The Uma-Oya project is a water transfer, hydropower, and irrigation system in the SE part of the central highland region of Sri-Lanka. From a geological viewpoint, most parts of the tunnel route in the studied section consist of very strong and abrasive metamorphic rocks that potentially are susceptible to grinding occurrence during the boring process under disc cutters. In this work, firstly, data processing is performed in order to identify the boundary between chipping and grinding. Then the chipping and grinding processes are modeled using the practical numerical and artificial intelligent methods. In the Numerical modeling stage, we try to make the modeling as realistic as possible. The results obtained from these modeling methods show that for the penetrations less than 3 mm/rev, the grinding process is dominant, and for the penetrations more than 3 mm/rev, rock chipping occurs. Also, in the Numerical modeling, no significant fracture expansion is observed in the rock when the penetration is less than 3 mm/rev. Moreover, it can be seen in the Numerical modeling of the chipping process that the propagated fractures come together and the chips are created.

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Pourhashemi, Seyed Mahdi, Ahangari, Kaveh, Hassanpour, Jafar, & Eftekhari, Seyyed Mosleh. (2021). Analysis of Grinding and Chipping Processes beneath Disc Cutters of Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines (Case study: Uma-Oya water Conveyance Tunnel, SriLanka). JOURNAL OF MINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES), 12(1 ), 281-297. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/662475/en

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Pourhashemi Seyed Mahdi, Ahangari Kaveh, Hassanpour Jafar, Eftekhari Seyyed Mosleh. Analysis of Grinding and Chipping Processes beneath Disc Cutters of Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines (Case study: Uma-Oya water Conveyance Tunnel, SriLanka). JOURNAL OF MINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES)[Internet]. 2021;12(1 ):281-297. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/662475/en

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Seyed Mahdi Pourhashemi, Kaveh Ahangari, Jafar Hassanpour, and Seyyed Mosleh Eftekhari, “Analysis of Grinding and Chipping Processes beneath Disc Cutters of Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machines (Case study: Uma-Oya water Conveyance Tunnel, SriLanka),” JOURNAL OF MINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES), vol. 12, no. 1 , pp. 281–297, 2021, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/662475/en

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