The genesis of high ground temperature in the Long mountain road tunnel

Highway traffic increasingly extends to the mountainous area, requiring highway tunnels to be longer. Highway tunnel construction is risky and challenging, especially in the high ground temperature area of Western China. In this study, the Nige Tunnel of Yunnan Honghe Jian(ge) Yuan highway is the re...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2020-10, Vol.570 (4), p.42019
Main Authors: Bing, Qi, Yongchao, Sun, Hui, Qi, Zhongjie, Wang, Jianbin, Zang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Body temperature
Channels
Conduction
Earth crust
Entrances
Fault lines
Fractures
Geological faults
Geological surveys
Groundwater
Heat sources
High temperature
Highway construction
Hot springs
Limestone
Mountainous areas
Mountains
Rock masses
Rocks
Tunnel construction
Tunnels
Wall temperature
Water bodies
Water quality
Water springs
Water temperature
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Summary:Highway traffic increasingly extends to the mountainous area, requiring highway tunnels to be longer. Highway tunnel construction is risky and challenging, especially in the high ground temperature area of Western China. In this study, the Nige Tunnel of Yunnan Honghe Jian(ge) Yuan highway is the research object. By conducting numerous field temperature tests, geological surveys, water quality experiments, and other processes, the causes of high temperatures in the ground have been analyzed. The results show that the hot liquid or vapor from the earth's crust deep area carries various chemical materials, passing through various channels (faults and fissures) to the superficial area and forms the geothermal of the tunnel. The thermal anomaly bodies in the deep crust move upward through faults Fn1 and Fn2. Some heat sources are exposed to the surface and form hot springs, and others are distributed through secondary channels after being transmitted to the shallow part of the crust. Among them, the entrance section of the Nige Tunnel is limestone, and the groundwater infiltrating the fracture channel is mixed in the conduction process, resulting in the overall low water temperature, and the rock wall temperature is lower than the water body temperature. The exit section of the Nige Tunnel is granite, the heat source is mainly conducted through structural fractures or rock mass, resulting in high rock temperature at the exit. By analyzing the causes of high ground temperature, this study provides a theoretical basis for developing the tunnel scheme.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/570/4/042019