Analysis of the impact of groundwater seepage on the stability of foundation works in geotechnical engineering

the development of geotechnical engineering projects and the quality of engineering surveys. In this paper, tunnel engineering is selected as the foundation engineering project under study to investigate the specific influence of groundwater seepage in the process of tunnel excavation. The flow-solid coupling model is constructed, and the safety coefficients of the tunnel project in different situations are calculated based on the strength discount method and the ultimate strain method. Numerical analysis software is used to establish the calculation model of the influence of groundwater seepage on the stability of tunnel excavation. The displacement of surrounding rock around the hole is selected as the evaluation index of tunnel stability, and the effect of groundwater seepage on each index is calculated by the analysis software. The study shows that groundwater seepage will make the rock body around the palm face after tunnel excavation change significantly from the pre-excavation bending. The seepage increases the displacement of the surrounding rock, and the coefficient of increase of vertical displacement is larger than the coefficient of increase of horizontal displacement. At the same time, the flow-solid coupling effect of groundwater seepage increases the surrounding rock stress, and the increase coefficients of each key point of the tunnel excavation are between 1.11-1.50, resulting in significant deformation of the bottom of the arch, the top of the arch, and the arch girdle. In addition, the groundwater seepage makes the tunnel safety coefficient decrease from 9.03 to 5.18, which significantly causes the decrease of tunnel stability.