Yingran Fang

1. Introduction Large-diameter slurry shields have been widely used in the construction of undersea and cross-river tunnels [1,2,3]. Disc cutter wear is one of the important factors that seriously restrict the efficiency of shield tunnelling. Disc cutter wear can be divided into normal wear (uniform wear) and abnormal wear (fracture of the cutter ring, flat wear, cutter ring wear sharpening, etc.).

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Open AccessArticle by 1,2, 1,2,*, 1,2 and 3 1 Key Laboratory of Urban Underground Engineering of the Education Ministry, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 2 School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 3 Faculty of Intelligent Manufacturing, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Appl. Sci.