Cracking and damage analysis of a masonry structure based on joint masonry model caused by a obliquely undercrossing tunnel

Abstract The damage variation of a masonry structure during shield tunneling has been investigated. Furthermore, the damage degree of the masonry building has been investigated by combining the field measurement, finite element method results, and theoretical method. The results show that compared with the theoretical calculation method LSTM, the method provide by this paper can give the detail damage location of the masonry structure caused by shield construction. Due to the existence of door and window openings, the result of JMM is larger than LSTM result, the differences can be modified by concept of “characteristic tensile strain”. The wall of the masonry building encounter the shield face first suffers more damage than the later ones. At the beginning of tunnlling, the damage were generated from a small area at the bottom for wall 1, but a larger area at the top of the building for wall 2. The damage area increase more at the top of the building as tunneling advanced, but the maximum damage occurred at the bottom of the building.