Back-analysis of Donghekou landslide using improved DDA considering joint roughness degradation

Landslides ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinmei Wang ◽  
Yingbin Zhang ◽  
Yanlong Chen ◽  
Qingdong Wang ◽  
Chenlin Xiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Back Analysis ◽  
Joint Roughness

Back-Analysis of a Debris Slope through Numerical Methods and Field Observations of Slope Displacements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koushik Pandit ◽  
Mahendra Singh ◽  
Swati Sharma ◽  
Har Amrit Singh Sandhu ◽  
Jagdish Prasad Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Back Analysis ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Debris Slope

Thematic mapping of the abandoned mining hazard: a pilot study for the South Wales Coalfield

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Statham ◽  
C. Golightly ◽  
G. Treharne
Keyword(s):  
Back Analysis ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Mining Subsidence ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Opencast Mining ◽  
The South ◽  
Mining Sites ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Method Of Production

AbstractThe Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office jointly sponsored a South Wales Desk Study into the feasibility of producing thematic maps of the Mining subsidence risk for planners. A method was to be developed and tested for a 25 km2 Pilot Area centred on Ebbw Vale.The study was started by collecting geological and mining data for the Pilot Area and compiling this information on a map. It was then intended to prepare the mining subsidence map from this map by back analysing subsidence incidents to determine the hazardous areas. This simple approach could not be followed for two reasons. First, the record of mining was incomplete and it was therefore necessary to define ‘worked’ seams and areas from the total historical record and not only from the surviving mine plans. Secondly, insufficient subsidence incidents were discovered in the Pilot Area to carry out meaningful back analysis.The study was extended to collect all readily available records of subsidence incidents throughout the Coalfield. A total of 388 were traced, mainly dating from 1960. About threequarters were collapses through superficial materials and were either close to the outcrop or above mine entries, the remaining 25% propagated to the ground surface through rock. The upper limit of migration was typically 8 times the extracted height where the dip was shallow, incrasing to as much as 18 times for steep dips. Selected grout contracts and opencast mining sites were also examined to gain information on the present condition of old workings and to study the ‘reputations’ of the various seams for voids.The results of the coalfield study were applied to the Pilot Area to produce a 1:10 000 scale Development Advice Map, ‘Mining Subsidence for use by developers and planners’. The map is zoned to show areas where specialist advice is necessary to support a planning application and it also shows all mine entries traced by the desk study. The method of production is general for the South Wales Coalfield and further maps could be prepared, using the Coalfield Study, quickly and cheaply.

Finite Element Modeling of a Mechanically Stabilized Earth Trial Wall

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110164
Author(s):  
Andrew Lees ◽  
Michael Dobie
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Shear Strength ◽  
Retaining Wall ◽  
Back Analysis ◽  
Soil Parameters ◽  
Failure Behavior ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Deformation And Failure ◽  
First Case ◽  
Soil Shear Strength

Polymer geogrid reinforced soil retaining walls have become commonplace, with routine design generally carried out by limiting equilibrium methods. Finite element analysis (FEA) is becoming more widely used to assess the likely deformation behavior of these structures, although in many cases such analyses over-predict deformation compared with monitored structures. Back-analysis of unit tests and instrumented walls improves the techniques and models used in FEA to represent the soil fill, reinforcement and composite behavior caused by the stabilization effect of the geogrid apertures on the soil particles. This composite behavior is most representatively modeled as enhanced soil shear strength. The back-analysis of two test cases provides valuable insight into the benefits of this approach. In the first case, a unit cell was set up such that one side could yield thereby reaching the active earth pressure state. Using FEA a test without geogrid was modeled to help establish appropriate soil parameters. These parameters were then used to back-analyze a test with geogrid present. Simply using the tensile properties of the geogrid over-predicted the yield pressure but using an enhanced soil shear strength gave a satisfactory comparison with the measured result. In the second case a trial retaining wall was back-analyzed to investigate both deformation and failure, the failure induced by cutting the geogrid after construction using heated wires. The closest fit to the actual deformation and failure behavior was provided by using enhanced fill shear strength.

scholarly journals The Application of Improved Genetic Algorithm to the Back Analysis of Foundation Pit Construction

2021 ◽  
Vol 676 (1) ◽  
pp. 012124
Author(s):  
Kai Peng ◽  
Yuefei Zhou ◽  
Yaolai Liu ◽  
Liangliang Ma ◽  
Yi Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Back Analysis ◽  
Improved Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Foundation Pit

Systematic selection of field response measurements for excavation back analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 101296
Author(s):  
Ze Zhou Wang ◽  
Numa Joy Bertola ◽  
Siang Huat Goh ◽  
Ian F.C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Back Analysis ◽  
Field Response ◽  
Systematic Selection ◽  
Selection Of
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