Investigation on the phenomena and influence factors of urban ground collapse in China

XW Wang, YS Xu - Natural Hazards, 2022‏ - Springer
Urban ground collapse (UGC) is becoming more common in China, resulting in significant
socioeconomic losses and even personal casualties. The frequency of UGC accidents is …

Soil erosion due to defective pipes: a hidden hazard beneath our feet

P Dastpak, RL Sousa, D Dias - Sustainability, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Sinkholes are a significant underground hazard that threatens infrastructure and lives and
sometimes results in fatalities. The annual cost of sinkhole damages exceeds $300 million …

Failure evolution and mechanism of ground collapse due to exfiltration of shallowly buried water pipeline

JC Liu, ZY Wang, Y Tan, YC Cao - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Exfiltration of defective water pipelines is one of the leading causes contributing to the
frequent ground collapses in congested urban areas; hence, revealing the failure evolution …

Experimental and numerical investigation on the mechanism of ground collapse induced by underground drainage pipe leakage

Z Dai, L Peng, S Qin - Environmental Earth Sciences, 2024‏ - Springer
Ground collapse is a common urban geological disaster mainly triggered by the leakage of
underground drainage pipe. To reproduce the process of underground cavity formation and …

A multi-geophysical approach to assess potential sinkholes in an urban area

R Liu, H Sun, J Qin, Z Zheng - Engineering Geology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Sinkholes caused by natural or anthropogenic factors pose as potential safety hazards in
urban areas. From April to May 2019, six consecutive ground collapses occurred in Beihuan …

A non-Darcy flow CFD–DEM method for simulating ground collapse induced by leakage through underground pipeline defect

X Li, R Chen, L Liu, C Zhou, B Bate - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Ground collapse due to soil erosion near pipeline defects involves soil loss and orifice
outflow, which may lead to non-Darcy flow, but it is often ignored in numerical simulations. In …

Soil arching due to leaking of tunnel buried in water-rich sand

YY Long, Y Tan - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
For tunnel buried in water-rich sand stratum, water intrusion into tunnel lining would bring
sand particles into the tunnel and then caused ground subsidence or even cave-in of …

Model tests and numerical modeling of the failure behavior of composite strata caused by tunneling under pipeline leakage conditions

S Zhang, T Bao, C Liu - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Pipeline leakage is a frequent phenomenon in subway construction and has contributed to
numerous underground collapses. In this study, the failure behavior of composite strata (ie …

Experimental study for joint leakage process of tunnel lining and particle flow numerical simulation

Z Zhang, M Mao, Y Pan, M Zhang, S Ma… - Engineering Failure …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Most of urban ground collapses and tunnel failures are caused by joint leakage of shield
tunnel lining. This paper conducts a series of model tests and particle flow simulations …

Map** subsurface utility pipes by 3-D convolutional neural network and Kirchhoff migration using GPR images

T Yamaguchi, T Mizutani… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we focus on ground-penetrating radar (GPR) for subsurface utility pipe
detection. Due to the dense and high-speed 3-D monitoring, GPR is a promising tool …