Method for calculating earth pressure load on a tunnel

摘要

A method for calculating an earth pressure load on a tunnel includes the following steps: (1) taking interaction between external soil and a tunnel structure in an actual operation condition as an earth pressure load acting on the tunnel structure; (2) establishing a physical model for the tunnel structure; (3) designing, on the basis of the physical model for the tunnel structure, a plurality of structural loads in different operation conditions to obtain a plurality of different structural deformations; and (4) drawing an inference according Betti's theorem, and establishing a physical model for an original structure, such that a load on the original structure, namely an earth pressure load on the tunnel, can be directly calculated according to a load-deformation relationship of the physical model and deformation of the original structure. The above method can determine distribution and size of an actual earth pressure load on a tunnel.