Drilling device for surveying front rock-mass intactness of tunnel face for tunnel constructed by TBM and method using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11585218-B2
Application number	US-202117396133-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 6, 2021
Priority date	Sep 17, 2020
Publication date	Feb 21, 2023
Grant date	Feb 21, 2023

Abstract

A drilling device for surveying front rock-mass intactness of a tunnel face for a tunnel constructed by a TBM and a method using the same are provided. The drilling device includes a drilling assembly, a drill-attitude control assembly, a data monitoring assembly and a TBM-platform fixing seat. The drilling assembly is connected to a TBM hydraulic system to obtain power, to drill the rock mass by an alloy bit through rotation and translation thereof. The drill-attitude control assembly controls an angle, a direction and a position of a drill rod and maintains drilling accuracy and stability. The data monitoring assembly acquires and stores a drilling dynamic-response signal by a high-accuracy sensor and a data recorder, to analyze an intactness characteristic of the rock mass. The TBM-platform fixing seat mounts the drilling device on the TBM.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A drilling device for surveying front rock-mass intactness of a tunnel face for a tunnel constructed by a TBM (tunnel boring machine), the drilling device comprising:
a drilling assembly,
a drill-attitude control assembly,
a data monitoring assembly, and
a TBM-drill-platform fixing seat,
wherein the drilling assembly comprises an alloy bit, a drill rod, a drill rotator, a drill rotator base and a supporting-plate slider;
the alloy bit drills a front rock mass of the tunnel face and is installed at a front end of the drill rod;
the drill rotator and the supporting-plate slider drive the drill rod to move, so as to enable the drill rod to generate rotation and translation;
the drilling assembly is fixed to a slide-rail steel frame as a whole to maintain stability thereof;
the slide-rail steel frame comprises slide-rail jamming grooves and slide-rail ridges;
the drill-attitude control assembly comprises a front lifter, a middle lifter and a tail connector;
the front lifter comprises a front lifting fix-pin, a front lifting sleeve and a front lifting shaft;
the middle lifter comprises a middle lifting fix-pin, a middle lifting sleeve and a middle lifting shaft;
the tail connector comprises a slide-rail steel frame seat and a cylindrical pin;
the data monitoring assembly comprises a displacement inductor, a hydraulic sensor, a speed tester, a torque meter rotor, a torque meter stator; and
the TBM-drill-platform fixing seat fixes the drilling device to a TBM-drill-platform frame by a front lifter base, a middle lifter base and a tail connection seat.

2. The drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 , wherein stable back and forth movements of both the drill rotator base and the supporting-plate slider that are performed on the slide-rail ridges are realized by the slide-rail jamming grooves, and the back and forth movements are transmitted to the drill rod, so as to drive the alloy bit to drill the front rock mass.

3. The drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 ,
wherein power of the rotation and the translation during drilling of a drill is supplied by a TBM hydraulic system;
hydraulic pressure is sequentially transmitted to a hydraulic tank, a drill hydraulic adapter, a pipeline and hydraulic adapters by a TBM hydraulic input port to supply the power; and
hydraulic sealing bolts, an adapter sealing gasket and hydraulic adapter bolts fix and seal the hydraulic tank, the drill hydraulic adapter, the pipeline and the hydraulic adapters.

4. The drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 , wherein the displacement inductor records drilling footage of the alloy bit by inducting a relative distance thereof to a displacement inductor target in the translation.

5. The drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 ,
wherein the torque meter rotor is moved coaxially along with the drill rod; the torque meter stator inducts a stress state of the torque meter rotor to measure drilling torque of the alloy bit;
the speed tester coaxial with the drill rod records a rotation speed of the drill rod; and
the torque meter stator and a speed tester seat are configured to fix the torque meter rotor and the speed tester, and to restrain the drill rod.

6. The drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 , wherein the hydraulic sensor is installed at the pipeline by a hydraulic sensor connector and is compressed and sealed by fix bolts.

7. The drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 , wherein a wireless signal receiver and a data recorder transmit and record monitoring data, and are in signal communication with a TBM data processing device by a signal transmission port and data transmission pins.

8. A method of using the drilling device for surveying the front rock-mass intactness of the tunnel face for the tunnel constructed by the TBM according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
installing the TBM-drill-platform frame at a construction platform behind a TBM cutter head, adjusting the front lifting shaft and the middle lifting shaft in height, such that the alloy bit is moved to be tightly close to the front rock mass for performing hole drilling;
coupling a TBM hydraulic input port to a TBM hydraulic system to provide continuous power for drilling, and coupling a signal transmission port and a TBM data transmission system;
turning on the displacement inductor, the hydraulic sensor, the speed tester, the torque meter rotor and the torque meter stator to check whether or not data is normally output;
starting the drilling assembly to move the drill rod forwards with predetermined torque and predetermined thrust, continuously drilling the front rock mass by the alloy bit, determining a drilling distance based on a value measured by the displacement inductor, and turning off the drilling assembly after drilling to a preset distance;
extracting and storing information of data in a data recorder, acquiring and organizing the data comprising drilling time, a drilling displacement, drilling pressure, a drilling rotation speed and drilling torque in drilling, and calculating a value of a parameter A; and
after acquiring drilling monitoring data, obtaining a drilling speed (V, m/s) by the drilling displacement and the drilling time;
calculating an intactness index;
determining the front rock-mass intactness based on the intactness index of each section of the front rock mass in the hole drilling, and completing the drilling.

Assignees

• China Inst Water Resources & Hydropower Res

Inventors

• Wang Yujie
• Cao Ruilang
• Zhao Yufei
• Liu Lipeng
• Shen Qiang
• Pi Jin
• Sun Xingsong
• Feng Shangxin
• Zheng Lifeng

Classifications

• E21F17/18

  Special adaptations of signalling or alarm devices (for mine lifts B66B; gas-sensitive devices per se G01N) · CPC title

• E21F17/00

  Methods or devices for use in mines or tunnels, not covered elsewhere (mine lighting F21, H05B) · CPC title

• E21C39/00

  Devices for testing in situ the hardness or other properties of minerals, e.g. for giving information as to the selection of suitable mining tools · CPC title

• E21B7/046

  horizontal drilling (drilling with mechanical conveying means E21B7/003) · CPC title

• E21D9/087 Primary

  with a rotary drilling-head cutting simultaneously the whole cross-section, i.e. full-face machines · CPC title