Open AccessMODELLING AND MONITORING OF STRUCTURAL SAFETY OF UNIQUE UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES OF THE SEWAGE SYSTEM OF LARGE CITIES IN DIFFICULT GROUND CONDITIONS
Author(s) -
Nickolai Perminov,
Перминов Н. А
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
construction and geotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2687-0908
pISSN - 2687-0894
DOI - 10.15593/2224-9826/2021.1.03
Subject(s) - megacity , civil engineering , sustainable development , environmental science , environmental planning , mining engineering , engineering , economy , political science , law , economics
Anthropogenic and dynamic impacts on facilities of underground urban infrastructure increase at intensive development of megacities. The unique long-operating underground structures of sewage system require special protection against anthropogenic influence as their wear degree in difficult soil conditions reaches 70 % and more. Therefore, providing structural (mechanical) safety of underground structures of excessive level of danger and responsibility defines sustainable operation and future development of geotechnical infrastructure of the megacity in general. Long-term studying dynamics of changes of technical state of underground sewage structures of the megacity, long operating (for more than 70 years) in soft soils, allowed establishing regularities of influence of intensive anthropogenic and dynamic impacts on this process. For the first time, based on developed continuous models of defective structures potentially dangerous sections have been identified, they are subjected to manifestation of critical failures; ways of their correction are presented. Numerical simulation has defined borders of defectless joint operation of the system “target area - geomassif - underground structure". Scientific substantiation of boundaries of areas with potentially dangerous sections of underground sewage facilities with account of external anthropogenic and dynamic impacts constitutes the basis for elaborating regulations on safe development of geotechnical infrastructure of the historical area of St. Petersburg. The proposed methods of monitoring and protection of geotechnical infrastructure have been successfully used for many years by St. Petersburg Vodokanal in areas of influence of anthropogenic factors and objects under construction on underground structures, they ensure an optimal combination of sustainable operation and development of geotechnical infrastructures of megacities.