Abstract:With the development of the economy and society, super-wide cross-section tunnels will increasingly emerge to meet urban transportation demands. Therefore, research on the surrounding soil deformation and mechanical behavior of support structures in such tunnels is of significant importance. Combined with a bored tunnel project in Guangdong, a two-dimensional finite element model is established using the GTS finite element software. By analyzing the displacement of surrounding soil and the mechanical response of support structures, the structural mechanical characteristics of super-wide cross-section tunnels under different excavation methods are studied. The results indicate that the vertical displacement of the soil mainly occurs during the construction of the right pilot tunnel when the central dissepiment (CD) method is adopted, and the vertical displacement of the soil mainly occurs during the construction of the central pilot tunnel when the the double-side drift method is used. The bending moments at the junctions of the initial supports and temporary supports are very large in the construction process by the CD method and double-side drift method due to stress concentration. Compared with the CD method, the double-side drift method results in smaller bending moments in the initial support. In the CD method for construction, the excavation of the right-side pilot tunnel will lead to the rapid increases of bending moments and internal force redistribution of the temporary supports. Similarly, excavation of the central pilot tunnel in the double-side drift method will lead to the analogous effects.