Method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete, including: acquiring natural corrosion action parameters and environmental influence action parameters, and evaluating a natural corrosion situation based on the natural corrosion action parameters to obtain an initial evaluation result; and modifying the initial evaluation result based on the environmental influence action parameters to obtain a target evaluation result.

Claims

1. A method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete, comprising: acquiring natural corrosion action parameters and environmental influence action parameters, and evaluating a natural corrosion situation based on the natural corrosion action parameters to obtain an initial evaluation result; and modifying the initial evaluation result based on the environmental influence action parameters to obtain a target evaluation result; wherein a process of evaluating a natural corrosion situation based on the natural corrosion action parameters to obtain an initial evaluation result comprises: presetting a natural corrosion action rating scale, and determining a corresponding initial natural corrosion action level based on the natural corrosion action rating scale and sulfate ion concentrations in groundwater; determining whether the groundwater contains concentrations of magnesium ions and corrosive carbon dioxide, and if not, directly evaluating the natural corrosion situation based on the sulfate ion concentrations to obtain the initial evaluation result; otherwise, correcting the initial natural corrosion action level based on the magnesium ion concentrations and the corrosive carbon dioxide concentrations in the groundwater to obtain a target natural corrosion action level; and evaluating the natural corrosion situation based on the target natural corrosion action level to obtain the initial evaluation result; the environmental influence action parameters comprise degrees of water-richness of tunnel surrounding rocks, degrees of connectivity between the surrounding rocks and an atmosphere, degrees of vapor evaporation from surface water in a tunnel site, and ambient temperatures in the tunnel site; the degrees of the water-richness of the tunnel surrounding rocks are used to characterize the surrounding rocks for a water content, comprising dryness of the surrounding rocks, wetness of the surrounding rocks, seepage of the surrounding rocks and water surges of the surrounding rocks; the degrees of the connectivity between surrounding rocks and the atmosphere involve strong connectivity, medium connectivity, and weak connectivity; the degrees of vapor evaporation from the surface water in the tunnel site is evaluated as arid and humid areas, semi-arid areas and arid areas respectively based on a climate dryness coefficient K of the tunnel site; and a process of modifying the initial evaluation result based on the environmental influence action parameters to obtain a target evaluation result comprises: determining whether a degree of the water-richness of the tunnel surrounding rocks is the dryness of the surrounding rocks, if so, directly obtaining an evaluation result of the environmental erosion of the thaumasite in the tunnel concrete; otherwise, obtaining action levels of environmental dry and wet cycles in the tunnel site based on the degrees of connectivity between the surrounding rocks and the atmosphere as well as the degrees of vapor evaporation from the surface water in the tunnel site, and correcting the initial evaluation result using the degrees of water-richness of the tunnel surrounding rocks, action levels of environmental dry and wet cycles, and ambient temperatures in the tunnel site, and obtaining the target evaluation result.

2. The method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete according to claim 1, wherein the natural corrosion action parameters comprise the sulfate ion concentrations in the groundwater, the magnesium ion concentrations in the groundwater and the corrosive carbon dioxide concentrations.

3. The method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete according to claim 1, wherein the degrees of the water-richness of the tunnel surrounding rocks are determined by a subsurface runoff module M with an expression below: $M=\frac{Q^{\prime }}{F},$ wherein M—a subsurface runoff module, in cubic meters per day per square kilometer (m.sup.3/(d.Math.km.sup.2)); Q′—stream flow or descending spring flow (m.sup.3/d) of groundwater recharge, calculated by a flow in dry season; and F—surface drainage area (km.sup.2) equivalent to the stream flow or descending spring flow Q′.

4. The method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete according to claim 1, wherein the climate dryness coefficient is obtained according to an expression below: $K=\frac{0.16.Math.t}{\gamma },$ wherein Σ.sup.t is an annual accumulated temperature (° C.) during a stable period of a daily mean temperature ≥10° C., and γ is an annual precipitation in milliliter, mm during a stable period of a daily mean temperature ≥10° C.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) For a clearer description of the technical schemes in the embodiments or prior art of the present application, the following drawings are briefly described for use in the embodiments, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings are available to those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts.

(2) FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of an evaluation parameter system according to an embodiment of the present application.

(3) FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an evaluation method according to an embodiment of the present application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

(4) The technical schemes in the embodiments of the present application are described clearly and comprehensively below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is clear that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, not all of them. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without making creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

(5) In order to make the above-mentioned objectives, features and advantages of the present application more obvious and understandable, the following is a further detailed description of the present application together with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

(6) As shown in FIG. 1, the present application provides a method for evaluating environmental erosion of thaumasite in tunnel concrete, including:

(7) an indicator system of evaluation parameters, including natural corrosion action indicator parameters and environmental influence action indicator parameters, is obtained, where the natural corrosion action indicator parameters are used to evaluate natural corrosion grades of sulfate ions in groundwater, and the environmental influence action indicator parameters are used to evaluate a dry and wet cyclic effect of surrounding rocks in contact with a tunnel lining structure and temperature effect levels in a tunnel site.

(8) The natural corrosion action indicator parameters include sulfate ion concentrations in groundwater, magnesium ion concentrations in groundwater and corrosive carbon dioxide concentrations.

(9) There are 5 levels of natural corrosion action, namely SL-1, SL-2, SL-3, SL-4 and SL-5, and the specific determination is as follows: firstly, the natural corrosion action levels are preliminarily determined according to the measured sulfate ion concentrations in the groundwater illustrates in Table 1, and then the preliminarily determined natural corrosion action levels are revised according to the magnesium ion concentrations and corrosive carbon dioxide concentrations in the groundwater listed in Table 2. In case of inconsistency between the two revised levels, the one with the higher revised levels shall prevail.

(10) TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Sulfate ion concentrations Action grade in groundwater (mg/L) SL-1 ≤400 SL-2   (400, 1,400] SL-3 (1,400, 3,000] SL-4 (3,000, 6,000] SL-5 >6,000

(11) TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Magnesium ion Corrosive content in carbon dioxide Action level groundwater concentrations in correction (mg/L) groundwater (mg/L) No change ≤1,000 ≤40 Increased by 1 level (1,000, 3,000] (40, 100] Increased by 2 levels >3,000 >100

(12) The environmental influence action indicator parameters include degrees of water-richness of tunnel surrounding rocks, degrees of connectivity between surrounding rocks and an atmosphere, degrees of vapor evaporation from surface water in the tunnel site, and ambient temperatures in the tunnel site.

(13) Among them, the degrees of water-richness of tunnel surrounding rocks are used to characterize the surrounding rocks for water content, and are determined according to a subsurface runoff module M, including dryness of the surrounding rocks, wetness of the surrounding rocks, seepage of the surrounding rocks and water surges of surrounding rocks; the specific criteria are shown in Table 3, and the calculation method is shown in Expression (1):

(14) TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Dryness of Wetness of Seepage of Water surges of surrounding surrounding surrounding surrounding rocks rocks rocks rocks M < 100 100 ≤ M < 1,000 ≤ M < M ≥ 3,000 1,000 3,000

(15) $\begin{array}{cc}M=\frac{Q^{\prime }}{F},& \left(1\right)\end{array}$
where M—subsurface runoff module, in cubic meters per day per square kilometer (m.sup.3/(d.Math.km.sup.2));
Q′—stream flow or descending spring flow (m.sup.3/d) of groundwater recharge, calculated by a flow in a dry season; and
F—surface drainage area (km.sup.2) equivalent to the stream flow or descending spring flow Q′.

(16) The degrees of connectivity between surrounding rocks and an atmosphere are classified into 3 levels of strong connectivity, medium connectivity, and weak connectivity according to the development of the surrounding rocks given in the geological survey of the tunnel, and the determination criteria are shown in Table 4.

(17) TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 Development Karst development Degrees of degree of fractured degree in karst connectivity strata area Weak connectivity Weak development Weak development Medium Medium Medium connectivity development development Strong connectivity Strong development

(18) The degrees of vapor evaporation from surface water in the tunnel site are divided into arid and humid areas, semi-arid areas, and arid areas based on a climate dryness coefficient K of the tunnel site, with specific division criteria as shown in Table 5, and the K value is obtained by Expression (2):

(19) TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 5 Arid and humid area Semi-arid area Arid area K < 1.5 1.5 ≤ K < 4.0 4.0 ≤ K

(20) $\begin{array}{cc}K=\frac{0.16.Math.t}{\gamma },& \left(2\right)\end{array}$

(21) where Σ.sup.t—an annual accumulated temperature (degree Celsius, ° C.) during a stable period of daily average temperature ≥10° C.; and

(22) γ—an annual precipitation (milliliter, mm) during a stable period of average daily temperature ≥10° C.

(23) The degrees of connectivity between surrounding rocks and an atmosphere and the degrees of vapor evaporation from surface water in the tunnel site combine to develop the action levels of environmental dry and wet cycles in the tunnel site is shown in Table 6.

(24) TABLE-US-00006 TABLE 6 Action levels Degrees of connectivity Degrees of vapor of dry and between surrounding evaporation from wet cycles rock and atmosphere surface water Grade I Weak connectivity Arid and humid area, semi-arid area, arid area Grade I Medium or strong Arid and humid area connectivity Grade II Medium connectivity Semi-arid area Grade II Strong connectivity Semi-arid area Grade III Strong connectivity Arid area

(25) The ambient temperature of the tunnel site is measured by the local annual average temperature T (° C.), and the temperature is divided into 3 impact levels at 5° C. intervals shown in Table 7.

(26) TABLE-US-00007 TABLE 7 Local annual average Action grade temperature T (° C.) Grade I 10° C. < T ≤ 15° C. Grade II  5° C. < T ≤ 10° C. Grade III ≤5° C.

(27) As revising the natural corrosion action levels, an order of judging the degrees of water-richness of tunnel surrounding rocks first, then determining the action levels of dry and wet cycles, and considering the ambient temperature of the tunnel site, and finally determining a correction level of the natural corrosion action levels in accordance with the Table 8; during the correction process, the levels are increased by at most 3 levels, and the corrected levels do not exceed the level of SL-5. The corrected levels are the final environmental erosion levels of thaumasite in tunnel structure concrete, see FIG. 2 for the flow chart.

(28) TABLE-US-00008 TABLE 8 Degrees of Action Correction water-richness levels Ambient of natural of surrounding of dry and temperature of corrosion rocks wet cycles tunnel site action level Dryness of Grades I, Grades I, II Unchanged surrounding II and III and III rocks Wetness of Grades I Grades I, II Unchanged surrounding and II and III rocks Wetness of Grade III Grades I, II Increased by surrounding and III 1 level rocks Seepage of Grade I Grades I, II Unchanged surrounding and III rocks Seepage of Grades II Grades I and II Increased by surrounding and III 1 level rocks Seepage of Grades II Grade III Increased by surrounding and III 2 levels rocks Water surges Grade I Grades I, II Increased by of surrounding and III 1 level rocks Water surges Grade II Grades I, II Increased by of surrounding and III 2 levels rocks Water surges Grade III Grade III Increased by of surrounding 3 levels rocks

(29) According to the present application, the natural corrosion action levels are determined firstly using sulfate ions in groundwater, then the preliminarily determined natural corrosion action levels are corrected based on the concentrations of magnesium ions and corrosive carbon dioxide to comprehensively determine the natural corrosion action levels; on this basis, the impact of environmental influence action indicator parameters is considered, and the influence degrees of dry and wet cyclic effect of tunnel surrounding rocks and temperature effect are considered comprehensively based on the degrees of water-richness of tunnel surrounding rocks, the degrees of connectivity between surrounding rocks and an atmosphere, the degrees of vapor evaporation from surface water in the tunnel site and the ambient temperature of the tunnel site, then the natural corrosion action levels are corrected to finally obtain the evaluation result of tunnel structure concrete thaumasite erosion environment.

(30) The above-mentioned embodiments only describe the preferred mode of the present application, and do not limit the scope of the present application. Under the premise of not departing from the design spirit of the present application, various modifications and improvements made by ordinary technicians in the art to the technical scheme of the present application shall fall within the protection scope determined by the claims of the present application.