The application provides a shield balancing mud for a
shield machine and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of shield
tunnel engineering. The shield balancing mud comprises the following raw materials: modified clay base material: 100 parts, composite flocculating agent: 6-15 parts, tackifying water-retaining agent: 1.5-4 parts, water-dispersing agent: 0.5-2.5 parts, organic crosslinking agent: 0.3-1.2 parts,
thixotropy adjusting agent: 0.2-1.5 parts, and pH adjusting agent: 0.5-4 parts. In the application, the high-activity modified clay is used as a skeleton, the inorganic
flocculation network is used to provide a dense structure resistant to
water erosion, the
borax-
cellulose reversible crosslinking is used to realize the thixotropic property, the
polyacrylamide is used to enhance the water-dispersing resistance, and the
thixotropy adjusting agent is used to balance the dispersion and
flocculation, so that the mud material simultaneously has excellent water-dispersing resistance and reversible
thixotropy in a high-water-pressure water-rich stratum.