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Table 5 Cases of shield tunneling adjacent to operational subway tunnels in Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou

From: Development of the safety control framework for shield tunneling in close proximity to the operational subway tunnels: case studies in mainland China

Project no.

Tunnels be constructed

Tunnel crossing type

Existing tunnels

Source of citation

21

Subway tunnels on Line 8 of Beijing subway

Under-crossing

Guloudajie station of Line 2

Jiang (2013)

22

Subway tunnels on Line 10 of Beijing subway

Under-crossing

Shaoyaoju station of Line 13

Yang et al. (2009)

23

Subway tunnels on Line 3 of Shenzhen subway

Under-crossing in launching phase

Subway tunnels on Line 1 of Shenzhen subway

Fan (2014)

24

Line 11 running tunnel of Shenzhen subway

Above-crossing

Line 1 running tunnels

Li et al. (2014)

25

Line 2 tunnels of Shenzhen subway

Under-crossing at a skew of about 55°

Line 1 tunnels

Li and Yuan (2012)

26

Line 2 tunnels of Shenzhen subway

Under-crossing at a skew of about 20°–23° and along a 350 m radius curve

Line 1 tunnels

Li and Chen (2012)

27

Line 6 running tunnel of Guangzhou subway along a 250 m radius curve

Under-crossing

Huangsha station of Line 1

Wang et al. (2011)