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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2025
Shandong University, Shandong, CN;
SHANDONG UNIVERSITY, Shandong, CN;
Abstract
The invention discloses a tunnel boring machine (TBM) equipped with a high-pressure water jet cutting system and a combined tunneling method, comprising a TBM body, the water pump unit on the body, and the high-pressure water jet cutting system at the front end of the body. The high-pressure water jet cutting system comprises a water jet-mechanical combined cutter head, water jet-shell knife combined cutters, a high-pressure water pipeline, a multi-medium rotary center, and a water jet diversion valve block. The high-pressure water at the pump unit is transmitted to the multi-medium rotary center through the high-pressure water conveying pipeline, and then divided into multiple paths by the water jet diverter valve block, and respectively supplied to each of the combined cutters on the water jet-mechanical combined cutter head. This invention offers practical suggestions and references for the overall design, and spatial arrangement of the high-pressure water jet cutting system.