The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Mingqing Xiao
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 5 1 6 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 5 1 6 9 - 0
The Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design systematically discusses the entire process of mining tunnel design, including: analysis of surrounding rock s… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Total Safety Factor Method for Tunnel Support Structure Design systematically discusses the entire process of mining tunnel design, including: analysis of surrounding rock self-stability; identification of local support and system support; calculation of rock pressure design value; load structure model and total safety factor calculation method of multi-layer support structure; deformation calculation method of support structure; integrated design method of support strength-deformation-timing; and the dynamic adjustment method based on on-site deformation monitoring. It also presents the inspection and verification tests of total safety factor method and specific engineering application cases. The theoretical system of total safety factor method described in this book has broken through the design bottleneck of tunnel support structures that have long relied on engineering analogy methods. The The Total Safety Factor Method provides the basic theoretical guidance for the quantitative design, dynamic adjustment and intelligent construction of mining tunnel support structures. The book is based on the many years of experience of the team led by the author of this book: Xiao Mingqing. Professor Ming's team has been involved in the design of nearly 20% of the high-speed railway tunnels and 50% of large-diameter underwater shield tunnels in China, with a total design mileage of 4,000km.
- Provides information on the theories and specific algorithms of the total safety factor method for the design of tunnel support structures and the quantitative design method of tunnel support structures
- Countries around the world have significant differences in their quantitative design methods of mining tunnel support structures and secondary support bearing bodies. This book establishes and presents a unified view of various design concepts
- Helps readers to compare and select tunnel section shapes and different support schemes, and quantify the design of support stiffness, support deformation and support timing to achieve the most economical and safest design by using the total safety factor method
Graduates, senior undergraduates and researchers engaged in tunnel engineering
1. Introduction
2. Calculation of Critical Stable Section of Tunnel and Necessity Judgment of Support
3. Identification of Local Support and System Support
4. Design Value and Calculation of Tunnel Surrounding Rock Pressure
5. Structural Calculation Model and Method of Total Safety Factor Method methods of multi-layer support structures under various loads.
6. Experimental Study on Bearing Capacity Model Based on Total Safety Factor Method
7. On-site Adjustment Method for Tunnel Deformation Monitoring Control Values and
8.. Integrated Design Method of “Support Strength / Deformation / Timing”
9. Research on Support Parameters of High-speed Railway Double Truck Tunnels Based on Total Safety Factor Method
10. Application Analysis of Total Safety Factor Method
11. Exploration of Several Issues Using Total Safety Factor Method
12. Further research
2. Calculation of Critical Stable Section of Tunnel and Necessity Judgment of Support
3. Identification of Local Support and System Support
4. Design Value and Calculation of Tunnel Surrounding Rock Pressure
5. Structural Calculation Model and Method of Total Safety Factor Method methods of multi-layer support structures under various loads.
6. Experimental Study on Bearing Capacity Model Based on Total Safety Factor Method
7. On-site Adjustment Method for Tunnel Deformation Monitoring Control Values and
8.. Integrated Design Method of “Support Strength / Deformation / Timing”
9. Research on Support Parameters of High-speed Railway Double Truck Tunnels Based on Total Safety Factor Method
10. Application Analysis of Total Safety Factor Method
11. Exploration of Several Issues Using Total Safety Factor Method
12. Further research
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443451683
- eBook ISBN: 9780443451690
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Mingqing Xiao
Professor Xiao Mingqing is the Chief Expert of the China Railway Construction Corporation, Chief Engineer of theChina Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co. Ltd,and Director of the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Underwater Tunneling Technology. His research interests include the design and technical research and development of tunnel and underground engineering. As a major pioneer of tunnelling in China, he has led the design of more than 70 underwater tunnel, such as the Nanjing Yangtze River Tunnel, Wuhan Yangtze River Tunnel and Shiziyang Tunnel of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Railway
Affiliations and expertise
Chief Expert of the China Railway Construction Corporation, Beijing, China