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Abstract
The 500kV Hongyang Underground Transmission and Substation was situated in the downtown of Shanghai city in China. The
project comprised a 5-storey building above ground and three levels basements. The excavation area and depth of this project
were about 10800 m2 and 24.0 m, respectively. The ground soils were mainly thick soft soils comprising Quaternary alluvial and
marine deposits. Surrounding environment of this project was quite complex. Considering the excavation area and depth, the soil
condition, and the protection requirements of the adjacent facilities, top-down method was adopted to construct the foundation pit
of this project. The excavation was supported by 1.2 m thick diaphragm walls. Three levels of underground structures and two
additional temporary struts were used to support the diaphragm wall. Steel tubes erected in bored piles were used as vertical
support system. An extensive instrumentation program was carried out to monitor the performance of the deep excavation and the
adjacent facilities. Monitored data of the retaining structure and the surrounding facilities were analyzed in this paper.
Observation results showed that top-down method was effective to control the deformation of the excavation. Design and
construction of this project can be used as a reference for similar deep excavations.
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Keywords: soft soils; foundation pit, substation, top-down method, monitoring.
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1. Project Description
The 500kV Hongyang Underground Transmission and Substation (HUTS) located in the downtown area of
Hongkou District in Shanghai, China. The project comprised a 5-story building above ground and three levels
basements which would be used for accommodating large power transformers. Frame-shear wall structure and pile
foundation were adopted for this project. The project was bounded by Yixian Road on the west side and Sanmen
Road on the north side, as shown in Figure 1. The shape of the excavation site was quite regular (approximately 166
m × 68.4 m). The excavation area and depth of the project were 15916 m2 and 24 m, respectively.
The environment was quite complex around the excavation. The Yixian Raod was about 40 m away from the
excavation on the west side. The minimum distance between the foundation of the Elevated Yixian Road and the
excavation was about 51.4 m. There was a railway between the Yixian Road and the excavation. The minimum
distance between the railway and the excavation was only about 15.0 m. A large number of municipal pipelines such
as power cables, water supply pipes, and gas pipelines were distributed on the west side of the excavation. The
minimum distance between the pipelines and the excavation was about 12.25 m. The Sanmen Road was about 8.0 m
away from the excavation on the north side. There were also several pipelines under the road and the minimum
distance between the pipelines and the excavation was about 5.0 m. On the other side of Sanmen road, there was a 4-
storey building with brick and concrete structure. The building was about 33.2m away from the excavation.
2. Ground Condition
The HUTS project site was situated at Yangtze River Delta alluvial plain. According to the geotechnical
investigation report (ECEPDI, 2013), the ground soils at the construction site were mainly thick soft soils
comprising Quaternary alluvial and marine deposits. As shown in Figure 2, from ground surface to a depth of about
100 m, the underground could be divided into 8 layers, among which Layer ĸ, Layer Ļ, Layer ľand Layer Ŀ
could be subdivided into 2, 5, 2 and 2 sub-horizontal layers, respectively.
The first layer (Layer ķ) was a less than 4.3-m-thick artificial fill in general. The second layer was divided into
two sub-layers, namely, Layer ĸ1, and ĸ3. Layer ĸ1 was brownish yellow silty clay with medium-soft plastic and
the thickness of this sub-layer ranged from 0.5m to 2.9m. Layer ĸ3 was gray sandy silt with an average thickness
of 3.1m. The third and fourth layers were very soft silty clay (Layer Ĺ) and very soft clay (Layer ĺ). This two
layers had large void ratio, low shear strength and high compressibility. Average thickness of Layer Ĺ and Layer ĺ
were 3.3 m and 5.9 m, respectively. Mean value of the water content of Layer Ĺ and Layer ĺ was about 47% and
undrained shear strength was about 34 kPa. Underlying was the fifth layer, which was divided into five sub-layers,
namely, Layer Ļ1-1, LayerĻ1-2, LayerĻ2-1, LayerĻ2-2, and LayerĻ2-3.The fifth layer was mainly gray silty
clay and sandy silt with medium palstic and medium to high compressibility. The physical and mechanical
properties of this layer were much better than that of Layer ĺ. Sandy silt in this layer composed the first confined
aquifer. The sixth layer was divided into two sub-layers, namely, Layer ľ2-1, and Layer ľ2-2 with an average
thickness of 12.7 m and 11.7 m, respectively. The sixth layer was mainly gray silty clay and silty sand with soft-
medium palstic and high to medium compressibility. The next layer was divided into two sub-layers, namely, Layer
Ŀ1 and Layer Ŀ2. Layer Ŀ1 was dense fine sand and Layer Ŀ2 was medium sand. The SPT N values of Layer Ŀ
1 and Layer Ŀ2 were about 60 and 72, respectively. Sand in this layer composed the second confined aquifer in
Shanghai. Underlying was the silty clay (Layer ŀ) with palstic and medium compressibility. Table 1 shows the
geotechnical parameters of the soils at the construction site.
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ω γ e c φ Es0.1-0.2 kv kh N
Soil layer
(%) (kN/m3) (kPa) (e) (MPa) (cm/s) (cm/s)
ĸ1 Silty clay 36.8 18.8 1.0 11 24 5.3 6.3E-08 5.2E-08 4
Ĺ Very soft silty clay 46.6 17.4 1.3 9 13 3.1 2.3E-07 3.0E-06 2
Ļ1-1 Soft silty clay 42.3 17.8 1.2 10 15 3.1 2.5E-07 2.9E-06 4
ľ2-1 Silty clay with silty sand 31.7 18.0 1.0 10 26 5.2 8.7E-06 3.0E-05 26
ľ2-2 Silty clay interbedded with silty sand 27.1 18.6 0.9 6 32 9.0 1.3E-04 2.5E-04 25
Note: wn=natural water content; J˙unit weight; e˙voids ratio; c˙cohesion obtained from direct shear test; φ˙angle of internal friction
obtained from direct shear test; Es0.1~0.2˙compressibility modulus; kv˙vertical coefficient of permeability; kh˙horizontal coefficient of
permeability; N˙blow counts of standard penetration test.
Figure 4. Plane view of the B0 slab Figure 5. Plane view of the B1 slab
Figure 6. Plane view of the B2 slab Figure 7. Plane view of the temporary struts
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A total of 152 bored piles were installed to support the steel tubes at the excavation stage. After the construction
of the bottom slab and the recovery of groundwater, these piles would be subjected to uplift load caused by
groundwater pressure acting on the bottom slab. This meant that these piles would be compressed at the excavation
stage and tensioned at the service stage. Design of these piles thus should meet the requirements at both the
excavation stage and the service stage. The diameter of these piles was 1000 mm. The fine sand layer (Layer ླྀ1)
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was selected as bearing layer for these piles. Pile tips went down to a depth of about 80.1 m under the ground
surface and the effective length of the piles was 56.1 m (see Figure 8). The design value of bearing capacity of a
single pile was 8000 kN, which equaled to the design value of load acting on a single temporary steel column. These
piles were made of Grade 35 reinforced concrete. Perpendicularity of 1/400 was required for the installation
precision of these piles.
Construction of the excavation involved diaphragm wall and vertical supports construction, soil cut, underground
slabs and temporary horizontal struts construction. The installation of diaphragm walls and piles commenced in
October 2013 and it took roughly 10 months to complete. Excavation started in September 2014. After finishing the
excavation of the first layer soils, the B0 slab was constructed. Then, soil excavation, construction of underground
slabs and temporary horizontal struts were conducted alternatively using top-down method. Construction of the
whole underground structure lasted for about two years totally. Table 2 shows the construction sequence of the
HUTS project. Figures 9 to Figure 12 show some photos of the construction progresses of the project.
Table 2. Construction sequences of the HUTS project
Figure 9. Construction of diaphragm wall and piles Figure 10. Construction of B0 slab
Figure 11. Construction of B1 slab Figure 12. Construction of bottom slab
Field monitoring is necessary to provide a means by which geotechnical engineers can verify the design
assumptions and the contractors can execute the work with safety and economy (Ng 1998). Observed performance
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of deep excavations has been reported by many researchers (such as O’Rourke 1981; Clough and O’Rourke 1990;
Ng 1998; Ou et al. 1998; Finno and Bryson 2002; Liu et al. 2005; Blackburn and Finno 2007; Tan and Li 2011;
Tan and Wei 2012). These field data have contributed a lot to understand the performance of excavations and
adjacent facilities. To monitor the performance of the excavation and the effects of the excavation on the
surrounding facilities, various instruments were installed at the construction site in this project (see Figure 1 and
Figure 4). Inclinometer tubes were installed in the diaphragm walls to measure the lateral displacement of walls.
Displacement survey points were installed to monitor the vertical displacement of steel columns, adjacent railway,
roads and pipelines. Wells were installed inside and outside the foundation pit to monitor the phreatic water table
and confined ground water table (see Figure 1).
80
60
40
20 H
G hm=0.1%
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28
H (m)
Figure 14. Maximum lateral displacement of wall versus excavation depth based on Wang et al. (2010)
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18 Stage3 Stage4 Stage5 Stage6 Stage7
16
Vertical displacement/mm
14
12
10
8 L32
L33
6
L34
4 L35
2 L36
0 L37
-2
2014.11.8 2015.02.03 2015.04.14 2015.07.05 2015.08.28 2015.10.25
Date
10
Settlement/mm
15
Stage1
20 Stage2
Stage3
25 Stage4
Stage5 Range of the excavation
30
Stage5
35 Stage7
T3 T5 T7 T9 T11 T13 T15 T17 T19 T21 T23
40
T1 T2 T4 T6 T8 T10 T12 T14 T16 T18 T20 T22 T24 T25
local code. This also indicates that the construction quality of the diaphragm was quite good and it successfully cut
off the confined ground water layers.
-5
Confined groundwater table (m)
-10
-15
-20
-25
-30
Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
-35
Y7 Y8 Y9 Y10 Y11
-40
2014/9/1 2014/11/1 2015/1/1 2015/3/1 2015/5/1 2015/7/1 2015/9/1 2015/11
Time (d)
Figure 17. Variation of confined groundwater table inside and outside the excavation
6. Summary
The 500kV Hongyang Underground Transmission and Substation (HUTS) located in the downtown area of
Shanghai with quite poor geological condition and strict requirements of environmental protection. Top-down
method was adopted in this project. The excavation was retained by 1.2 m thick diaphragm walls. Three levels
underground slabs and two levels temporary struts were used to support the diaphragm walls. Steel tubes with
diameter of 550 mm and thickness of 16 mm, filled with Grade 60 concrete, were used as vertical supporting
columns. Monitored results show that maximum lateral displacement was only 51.8 mm and the ratio between the
maximum lateral displacement of wall and the excavated depth was 0.22%. The central columns were uplifted due
to the rebounding caused by soil excavation. And the maximum vertical displacement was 15.9 mm. Maximum
settlement of the adjacent railway was 22.9 mm and the normal operation of the railway was no affected. Large
drawdown of confined groundwater inside the excavation caused almost no influence on the outside confined
groundwater layers as the diaphragm wall successfully cut off the confined ground water layers. Design and
construction of this project was quite successful and it can be used as a reference for similar deep excavations.
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