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Theoretical Analysis of the Jacking Force During the Vertical Pipe Jacking Process

  • Xinjiang Wei,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Gang Wei,
  • Shaohua Li and ,
  • Zihai Yan,
  • Jiajia Yan and
  • Jingmin Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

With the growing scarcity of surface space, underground development has become essential for expanding human living space. Among various tunneling methods, pipe jacking stands out due to its economic advantages and minimal environmental impact. Recen...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
490 Views
30 Pages

Calculation Method for Jacking Force of Straight Steel Pipe Jacking Considering Circumferential Deformation Effect

  • Shichong Yang,
  • Tianshuo Xu,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Jingran Guo and ,
  • Kaiqi Li and
  • Shukang Ying
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2026

Flexible steel jacking pipes undergo circumferential deformation under external loads, causing soil pressure redistribution and additional frictional resistance. To accurately predict jacking forces, 2D numerical simulations were utilized to reveal a...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
581 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2026

This study investigates the ground settlement behavior induced by square pipe group jacking construction using the pipe-roof structure method. The research is based on the Yifeng Gate undercrossing project in the east extension of the Jiangnan connec...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,855 Views
23 Pages

Ground Settlement Law, Jacking Force Prediction, and Control Countermeasures for Large-Section Rectangular Pipe Jacking of National Highway Underpass

  • Deyu Qian,
  • Hexi Jiao,
  • Zexiang Li,
  • Yingli Zhu and ,
  • Jiale Liu,
  • Zhenglong Chen,
  • Xing Gao,
  • Hongwang Liu,
  • Baihong Tao and
  • Zixiang Xu
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

25 August 2023

The rectangular pipe jacking method is an efficient, green, trenchless technology for constructing urban underground space. However, some problems, including the high jacking resistance, the instability of the tunneling face, and excessive ground set...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underground Space Planning and Design for Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
1,118 Views
18 Pages

Study on the Influence of Jacking Force and Offset on the Mechanical Behavior of Bell and Spigot Joints in Pipe-Jacking

  • Li Luo,
  • Yangyu Zhang,
  • Weihua Liu,
  • Shuang Huang and ,
  • Qi Chen and
  • Feng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 November 2025

As the structurally weaker component of a pipe-jacking system, the bell and spigot joint is subjected to considerable axial jacking forces during construction and is prone to damage once an offset occurs. In this study, a three-dimensional refined nu...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,572 Views
25 Pages

The Development of the Pipe Jacking Guidance Technology

  • Di Qiu,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Yutong Zu and
  • Yin Qing

18 February 2025

Pipe jacking is one of the most important construction methods in trenchless technology. Pipe jacking guidance technology acquires the jacking route by collecting the attitude and position information of the pipe jacking machine. It ensures that the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tunnel and Underground Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,996 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2025

During pipe jacking construction, in addition to overcoming the resistance at the front, there is also the need to overcome significant frictional resistance. Grouting technology is commonly used in engineering to reduce the frictional resistance exe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology and Management Applied in Construction Engineering Projects II)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,082 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of Jacking Forces in Weathered Phyllite Based on In Situ Pressuremeter Testing and Deep Learning

  • Lit Yen Yeo,
  • Fredrik Phangkawira,
  • Pei Gee Kueh,
  • Sue Han Lee and ,
  • Chung Siung Choo,
  • Dongming Zhang and
  • Dominic Ek Leong Ong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Pipe jacking is a trenchless technology used to install buried pipelines, such as sewer lines in wastewater management systems. Existing mechanistic approaches based on geomaterial strength parameters (i.e., friction angle and apparent cohesion) can...

(This article belongs to the Section Geomechanics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,208 Views
16 Pages

This research examines the effects of vertical jacking construction on the mechanical behavior of shield tunnels. Model tests simulating vertical jacking were performed utilizing a purpose-built apparatus to quantify the reaction forces generated by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Building Foundation Engineering and Underground Structures)
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  • Open Access
58 Citations
6,214 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Ground Deformation during Pipe-Jacking Considering Multiple Factors

  • Dong-Jie Ren,
  • Ye-Shuang Xu,
  • Jack S. Shen,
  • Annan Zhou and
  • Arul Arulrajah

27 June 2018

Pipe-jacking is a construction method widely used in pipeline constructions. Prediction of ground deformation induced by pipe-jacking, is important for safety and scheduling purposes. This paper presents an approach to predict ground deformation duri...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
739 Views
20 Pages

Mechanical Response Characteristics of Prefabricated Utility Tunnel Joints Considering Jacking Load Imbalance

  • Shubo Sui,
  • Xiangpan Jiao,
  • Hongjun Zhang,
  • Tong Wang and ,
  • Ruoqi Hu,
  • Kang He and
  • Zhanping Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 January 2026

During jacking construction of prefabricated utility tunnels, asynchronous jack output and interface friction may induce internal force redistribution and deformation amplification at the leading end. Taking a triple-cell prefabricated utility tunnel...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,543 Views
17 Pages

Risk Assessment of Lift-Jacking Accidents Using FFTA-FMEA

  • Na Xu,
  • Keyi Di,
  • Feifei Liu,
  • Wencheng Zhao and
  • Bo Zhang

20 June 2023

Lift-jacking accidents are one of the five common accidents in the lift field, characterised as a high hazard. In addition, it is difficult to obtain absolute probabilities of risk factors for lift accidents which are ambiguous and uncertain. In orde...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Industrial Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,781 Views
21 Pages

17 April 2025

Accurate prediction of jacking force is crucial for long-distance pipe jacking construction. This study establishes a theoretical jacking force model considering the soil pressure arch effect, where the Persson contact model and the hydrodynamic para...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,230 Views
17 Pages

In long-distance, large-section rectangular pipe jacking operations, machine deviation is an inevitable factor that poses substantial challenges to the accurate prediction of frictional resistance. To address this issue, a novel methodology is propos...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
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  • Open Access
37 Citations
13,728 Views
20 Pages

Prediction of Friction Resistance for Slurry Pipe Jacking

  • Yichao Ye,
  • Limin Peng,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Weichao Yang and ,
  • Chenghua Shi and
  • Yuexiang Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2019

Friction resistance usually constitutes one of the two main components for the calculation of required jacking force. This paper provides a new approach to predict the friction resistance of slurry pipe jacking. First, the existing prediction equatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Buildings and Structures under Extreme Loads)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,499 Views
22 Pages

Line Shape Analysis and Dynamic Response of Ballastless Track during Jacking Rectification Fixing

  • Wei Chen,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Linhong Fang,
  • Chao Liu and ,
  • Zhiping Zeng,
  • Ping Lou and
  • Tianqi Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2022

In order to study the railway line deformation and dynamic response of ballastless track structure under train load during jacking rectification fixing, a three-dimensional numerical model of the CRTS II slab ballastless track on subgrade is establis...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,113 Views
21 Pages

Structural Stability and Mechanical Analysis of PVC Pipe Jacking under Axial Force

  • Rudong Wu,
  • Kaixin Liu,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Cong Zeng and ,
  • Yong Xu and
  • Jiahao Mei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

PVC pipe jacking is prone to cause yielding or buckling under the jacking force and may lead to engineering failure. The relationship between the buckling modes, ultimate bearing capacity, different diameter–thickness ratios, and length–d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Underground Space Design: Structural Stability and Mechanics Analysis)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,485 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Jacking Force in Vertical Tunneling Projects Based on Neuro-Genetic Models

  • Xin-Jiang Wei,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Gang Wei,
  • Cheng-Wei Zhu and
  • Yu Shi

The vertical tunneling method is an emerging technique to build sewage inlets or outlets in constructed horizontal tunnels. The jacking force used to drive the standpipes upward is an essential factor during the construction process. This study aims...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
165 Views
25 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Dynamic Evolution and Interface Friction Characteristics of Pipe Jacking Thrust in Sandstone Formations

  • Guanghui Li,
  • Guanghua Wu,
  • Xiangdong He,
  • Lulu Pan and ,
  • Aijiu Chen,
  • Yawen Zhao and
  • Lingyun Feng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 October 2026

Accurately predicting pipe jacking thrust and addressing the limited applicability of existing frictional resistance models under rock formation conditions are key technical challenges in pipe jacking through sandstone formations. Based on a pipe jac...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,180 Views
20 Pages

24 March 2022

Pipe jacking has been widely used in urban underground engineering construction in recent years. Prediction of ground deformation caused by pipe jacking is particularly important for the safety of construction. With regard to the densely arranged pip...

(This article belongs to the Topic Engineering Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,905 Views
12 Pages

18 July 2022

An analytical formulation involving residual force is proposed to predict the displacement of an existing structure by simplifying the tunnel as an infinite Euler–Bernoulli beam resting on a two-parameter Pasternak foundation. The feasibility is conf...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
1,551 Views
19 Pages

Comprehensive Study on the Thrust Estimation and Anti-Freezing Lubricant of Pipe Jacking in Frozen Soil

  • Kai Wen,
  • Wei Zeng,
  • Qing Ye,
  • Hideki Shimada and ,
  • Siliang Qin and
  • Benhao Fu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2024

Recent advancements in underground construction have led to the widespread utilization of pipe jacking. However, the engineering challenges posed by frozen ground in pipe jacking projects have not been extensively studied. This research aims to addre...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Aspects in Colloid and Interface Science)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,684 Views
14 Pages

Research on Dewatering Characteristics of Waste Slurry from Pipe Jacking Construction

  • Libing Jiang,
  • Liang Zhen,
  • Jianfeng Wang,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Xianwen Huang

18 March 2022

A large amount of waste slurry is produced during the construction of pipe jacking projects. To avoid the waste slurry occupying too much urban land, it needs to be rapidly reduced. Due to the complex composition of waste slurry, the existing dewater...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recovery and Treatment of Solid Waste)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,894 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2023

Shield tunneling underneath existing rectangular pipe jacking can often lead to uneven settling. To solve the problem of excessive deformation of the existing underground pedestrian passages, excavated via the rectangular pipe-jacking method due to t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Trends in Tunnel and Underground Engineering)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,625 Views
16 Pages

Field Test and Numerical Simulation Study on Pipe Sticking of Pipe Jacking in Composite Stratum

  • Shilei Zhang,
  • Xiaodong Xu,
  • Feilun Luo,
  • Tao Shi and ,
  • Tianshuo Xu and
  • Peng Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 December 2024

In this study, the jacking force of a stuck pipe was explored under various contact conditions in long-distance composite strata. The Jiaoliu River jacking project in Yichao, Inner Mongolia, was selected for study, and the precise location of the pip...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Foundation Analysis: Soil–Structure Interaction)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,712 Views
13 Pages

2 August 2023

The pipe jacking method is gradually attracting increasing levels of attention and is becoming an important method for constructing underground engineering. However, jacking large-size concrete pipes in urban core areas subjected to complicated geolo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tunneling and Underground Engineering: From Theories to Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,534 Views
21 Pages

22 April 2025

The prevalence of pipe jacking projects that traverse beneath subway tunnels in urban environments is on the rise, and the construction of pipe jacking can have a considerable effect on the deformation and stress experienced by existing shield tunnel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Construction Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Characteristics of Lining Structure—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,400 Views
13 Pages

29 November 2023

Minimizing frictional resistance is crucial for ensuring the safety and smooth progress of pipe jacking construction. However, due to the unpredictability of geological conditions, it is difficult to grasp the frictional resistance during constructio...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
413 Views
24 Pages

20 June 2026

Hydraulic synchronous jacking technology is extensively employed in bridge reconstruction and new construction, with jacking supports serving as core components whose blast resistance is critical to the structural safety of the bridge jacking system....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diversified Development of Steel Structures: Cross-Disciplinary Applications and Enhancement of Safety and Resilience)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,489 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2025

Based on the Zhuyuan–Bailonggang sewage interconnection pipe project in Shanghai, the ABAQUS finite element software was used in numerical simulations to study the fine control of stratum disturbances caused by pipe jacking parameter deviation...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,692 Views
14 Pages

22 June 2023

Existing tunnels are often subject to longitudinal bending when undercrossing tunnelling. It is of significance to more accurately evaluate the longitudinal equivalent bending stiffness (LEBS) of the existing tunnel within the influential zone. A new...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tunneling and Underground Engineering: From Theories to Practices)
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  • Open Access
227 Views
24 Pages

Model Test Study on Soil-Carrying Effect of Shallow-Buried Rectangular Pipe Jacking

  • Jingran Guo,
  • Haijuan Ming,
  • Kaiqi Li,
  • Peng Zhang and ,
  • Yunlong Zhang,
  • Xiaoyi Zheng and
  • Lingfeng Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 September 2026

Due to the cross-section characteristics of rectangular pipe jacking, the “soil-carrying effect” of overlying soil migration with the pipeline is prone to occur during jacking in shallow strata, resulting in a sharp increase in jacking re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Underground Space Design: Structural Stability and Mechanics Analysis—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2,007 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2023

In order to improve the bearing capacity of a bridge under dynamic impact and at the same time to improve the durability and safety of the bridge, the bridge should be jacked up, and most of the current research on bridge jacking upgrading is on sync...

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481 Views
25 Pages

10 June 2026

Post-rotation jacking is a critical construction stage for load-path reconstruction and alignment adjustment in rotation-constructed bridges, particularly for ultra-wide double-deck composite girder systems. Taking a two-span continuous steel truss&n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Emerging Technologies for Structural Design, Construction, Inspection, and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,857 Views
10 Pages

3 February 2023

In order to study the variation law of shear frictional characteristics of the steel pipe jacking and sand interface under different working conditions, the shear stress–strain curve between five different particle sizes of sand and steel pipe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tunneling and Underground Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,845 Views
19 Pages

3 January 2025

To improve the accuracy of bearing load measurement in propulsion shafting, a bearing load measurement method based on redundant strain and jacking data fusion is proposed. Firstly, to address the issue of low measurement accuracy in strain gauge met...

(This article belongs to the Topic Measurement Strategies and Standardization in Manufacturing)
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1,178 Views
18 Pages

Analysis and Application of Critical Pressure Prediction Model for Surface Leakage of Underwater Shallow Buried Jacking-Pipe Grouting

  • Ziguang Zhang,
  • Yong He,
  • Xiaopeng Li,
  • Xiang Li and ,
  • Lin Wei and
  • Feifei Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Jacking-pipe construction has the advantages of high mechanization, low environmental impact and fast construction speed. It is widely used in the project of underground pipeline under river. However, jacking-pipe grouting under shallow burial condit...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
456 Views
23 Pages

21 May 2026

The vertical jacking method is a trenchless construction technique in which standpipes are jacked upward from a horizontal main pipeline through overlying soil, and it is widely applied in marine outfall projects. Taking a deep-sea tailwater outfall...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,370 Views
15 Pages

Ground Surface Deformation Caused by Pipe Jacking Construction in a Soft Soil Area: An Experiment-Based Study

  • Junfeng Tang,
  • Junkai Xu,
  • Dezhou Zhou,
  • Dong Huang and ,
  • Ke Zeng,
  • Yuhang Li and
  • Zhuo Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Soft soil has the characteristics of high compressibility, large void ratio, and strong structure. Therefore, it is more likely to cause surface subsidence or even surface cracking and collapse when laying oil and gas pipelines in soft soil areas thr...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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1,080 Views
26 Pages

Research and Design of Key System of Jacking Formwork for Super High-Rise Building

  • Fankui Zeng,
  • Shuxin Yang,
  • Hua Huang,
  • Mengxue Guo and
  • Gongfan Wang

5 January 2026

To enhance construction efficiency and structural stability, this study investigates the mechanical behavior and deformation characteristics of a jacking steel platform system used in the core-tube construction of a supertall building. Field monitori...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,311 Views
12 Pages

29 December 2023

The application of non-excavation construction technology, such as the pipe jacking method, has obvious advantages in building urban underground space engineering projects, which can effectively reduce the occupation of ground surfaces and the migrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Geotechnical Engineering and Marine Civil Engineering Construction (Volume II))
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,381 Views
11 Pages

Research on Axial Stress and Strain Characteristics of Reinforced-Concrete Curved Pipe Jacking in Power Tunnels

  • Yongjun He,
  • Jian Cheng,
  • Zengli Shi,
  • Bin Zhang and ,
  • Li Chen,
  • Xi Li,
  • Xiaoli Wang and
  • Peng Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2024

Joint deflection during curved pipe jacking in power tunnels poses a significant risk of structural failure due to the resulting eccentric and diagonal loading on the pipes. This study investigated the axial stress and strain characteristics of reinf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Analysis of Underground Space Construction)
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1 Citations
2,849 Views
14 Pages

5 January 2023

The study of the distribution form and calculation method of the earth pressure on the back wall of a pilot tunnel under a jacking reaction is very important to ensure the safety and smooth construction of the pipe jacking. Based on a metro station i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Modeling for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering)
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11 Citations
3,449 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2022

Aiming at the features of deformation caused by large diameter vertical two-layer pipe jacking in the soil-rock composite stratum, on-site monitoring and numerical analysis has been done based on an electric power tunnel project constructed with the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Construction Technologies in Underground Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1,124 Views
20 Pages

An Online Correction Method for System Errors in the Pipe Jacking Inertial Guidance System

  • Yutong Zu,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Zheng Zhou,
  • Da Gong and ,
  • Yuanbiao Hu and
  • Gansheng Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 August 2025

The pipe-jacking inertial guidance method is a key technology to solve the guidance problems of complex pipe-jacking projects, such as long distances and curves. However, since its guidance information is obtained by gyroscope integration. System err...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,780 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2024

The construction of pipe jacking has little impact on the environment and is usually used to build underground passages with shallow buried depths and short lengths. Compared with circular pipe jacking, rectangular pipe jacking has the advantages of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tunnel and Underground Construction)
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  • Open Access
660 Views
19 Pages

Experimental Evaluation of the Flexural and Bearing Mechanical Properties of Dragonwood in Jacking Applications in Comparison to Ekki

  • Herry Chen,
  • Tolulope Alayande,
  • Mateya Hughes,
  • Maxime Daviau and ,
  • Catherine Shrimpton,
  • Tyler Hull and
  • Daniel Lacroix
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 June 2026

Engineered bamboo composites (EBCs) are increasingly considered as sustainable alternatives to tropical hardwoods in structural applications. In jacking systems, performance is primarily governed by compression perpendicular-to-grain (bearing), altho...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,095 Views
23 Pages

A Segmented Calculation Method for Friction Force in Long-Distance Box Jacking Considering the Effect of Lubricant

  • Yunlong Zhang,
  • Peng Zhang,
  • Kaixin Liu,
  • Tianshuo Xu and ,
  • Yong Xu and
  • Jiahao Mei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 March 2024

In box jacking, injecting lubricant around the box is an essential method to reduce excessive friction forces caused by the interaction between the box and soil. This method introduces complexity to factors controlling the friction forces, such as th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Tunneling and Underground Space Technology)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,942 Views
18 Pages

5 October 2024

Most of the current machine learning algorithms are applied to predict the jacking force required in micro-tunneling; in contrast, few studies about long-distance, large-section jacking projects have been reported in the literature. In this study, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,748 Views
25 Pages

19 July 2025

Rectangular box jacking is widely used in densely developed urban areas. However, when conducted with limited clear distance near existing metro tunnels, it introduces considerable structural safety risks. This study investigates a large-section rect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Building Foundation Engineering and Underground Structures)

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