scholarly journals Spatial variability characteristics of the effective friction angle of Crag deposits and its effects on slope stability

2022 ◽  
Vol 141 ◽  
pp. 104532
Author(s):  
Samzu Agbaje ◽  
Xue Zhang ◽  
Darren Ward ◽  
Luisa Dhimitri ◽  
Edoardo Patelli
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kouseya Choudhuri ◽  
Debarghya Chakraborty

This paper intends to examine the influence of spatial variability of soil properties on the probabilistic bearing capacity of a pavement located on the crest of a fibre reinforced embankment. An anisotropic random field, in combination with the finite difference method, is used to carry out the probabilistic analyses. The cohesion and internal friction angle of the soil are assumed to be lognormally distributed. The Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to obtain the mean and coefficient of variation of the pavement bearing capacity. The mean bearing capacity of the pavement is found to decrease with the increase in horizontal scale of fluctuation for a constant vertical scale of fluctuation; whereas, the coefficient of variation of the bearing capacity increases with the increase in horizontal scale of fluctuation. However, both the mean and coefficient of variation of bearing capacity of the pavement are observed to be increasing with the increase in vertical scale of fluctuation for a constant horizontal scale of fluctuation. Apart from the different scales of fluctuation, the effects of out of the plane length of the embankment and randomness in soil properties on the probabilistic bearing capacity are also investigated in the present study.


2018 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 03013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purwanto B. Santoso ◽  
Yanto ◽  
Arwan Apriyono ◽  
Rani Suryani

The causes of landslides can be categorized into three factors: climate, topographic, and soil properties. In many cases, thematic maps of landslide hazards do not involve slope stability analyses to predict the region of potential landslide risks. Slope stability calculation is required to determine the safety factor of a slope. The calculation of slope stability requires the soil properties, such as soil cohesion, the internal friction angle and the depth of hard-rock. The soil properties obtained from the field and laboratory investigation from the western part of Central Java were interpolated using Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) to estimate the unknown soil properties in the gridded area. In this research, the IDW optimum parameter was determined by validation toward the percent bias. It was found that the IDW interpolation using higher weighting factor corresponds with a higher percent bias in case of the depth of hard-rock and soil cohesion, while the opposite was found for the internal friction angle. Validation to landslide incidents in western parts of Central Java shows that the majority of landslide incidents occur at depths of hard rock of 6 m-8 m, at soil cohesions of 0.0 kg/cm2-0.2 kg/cm2, and at internal friction angles of 30°-40°.


2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 03076
Author(s):  
RUAN Jin-kui ◽  
ZHU Wei-wei

In order to study the sensitivity of factors affecting the homogeneous building slope stability, the orthogonal test design method and shear strength reduction finite element method were used. The stability safety factor of the slope was used as the analysis index, and the range analysis of results of 18 cases were carried out. The results show that the order of sensitivity of slope stability factors is: internal friction angle, slope height, cohesion, slope angle, bulk density, elastic modulus, Poisson's ratio. The analysis results have reference significance for the design and construction of building slope projects.


2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 2161-2166
Author(s):  
Jun Zhao Gao ◽  
Guo Feng Xiao ◽  
Hai Qiang Miao

Side slop losing stability is one of the main factors which greatly influences freeway expedite construction, especially after side slop losing stability the determination of rock and soil mechanics parameter may take a long time. Inversion method to analyze slope stability can preferably solve the problem. During the treatment of the ecological freeway landslide, we can not obtain important Parameters due to great disparity of sample Parameters of landslide. However, using inversion method to get cohesion and internal friction Angle, and anglicizing its sensitivity during calculation of stability can identify reliable Parameters. According to slope stability calculus, the ecological reinforcement design scheme come into effect.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jiulong Gao ◽  
Jiading Wang ◽  
Yao Wei ◽  
Shaotong Jiao ◽  
Meng Jing ◽  
...  

Frequent occurrence of landslides has seriously threatened the infrastructural projects in the Loess Plateau, China. At the beginning, with development of the landslide, several fissures were generated along the internal weak surface. Then, under the constant influence of rainfall and irrigation, the fissures were expanded and connected, which formed a consecutive sliding surface, consequently leading to the occurrence of the landslide. Therefore, the key to treat the landslide is to prevent the expansion and connection of fissures in the potential slip zone inside the slope. In this paper, an old landslide, which occurred at an early stage of the construction of the Lvliang Airport, was selected as a case study. A new type of grouting material was used to fill the fissures and reinforce the loess in the slip zone, so as to study the effect of material content on the slope stability. With current methods, loess specimens were taken from the slip zone inside the Lvliang Airport slope. Based on the GDS triaxial test system, a series of laboratory tests were performed on the undisturbed loess and the remolded which contained the stabilizer, including triaxial shear tests at constant matric suctions and wetting tests at constant deviator stresses. Moreover, the dichotomy in mathematics was chosen to find the threshold of the material content. The test results showed that the cohesion and the internal friction angle of the loess obviously increased after grouting. The failure behaviour of the loess along the wetting path was dependent on the material ratio and the stress level. Meanwhile, the critical state line of the slope, grouted with materials of different ratios, was compared by fitting the regression equation. It was found that the threshold value of the stabilizer content was between 15% and 20%, which was the most suitable ratio for improving slope stability with relatively lower cost.


ce/papers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 779-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey J. SHEPHEARD ◽  
Paul J. VARDANEGA ◽  
Elizabeth A. HOLCOMBE ◽  
Rose HEN-JONES ◽  
Flavia DE LUCA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zhiguo Chang ◽  
Qingxiang Cai ◽  
Li Ma ◽  
Liu Han

With open-pit mines excavated, the slopes will be exposed to the natural environment for a long time. Affected by factors like temperature, seepage, mining, freeze-thaw, etc., slope structural integrity and strength will gradually decline as slope exposure time extends. Besides, the development of defect structure within the rocks is closely correlated with time. In this paper, freeze-thaw cycle tests were conducted on the saturated sandstones collected from a certain open-pit mine. According to the test results, the mass density and longitudinal wave velocity gradually increased with more times of freeze-thaw cycles while mechanical properties such as internal friction angle, cohesion, elastic modulus, and uniaxial compressive strength decreased instead. The constitutive model of saturated rock deterioration was established by taking the volume of phase transition of water in microcracks as a variable. Based on the tests results and theoretical analysis, the sensitivity of the factors affecting slope stability under freeze-thaw damage was studied by Control Variable Method (CVM) and Orthogonal Design Method (ODM). It was determined that the internal friction angle and cohesion had a highly significant effect on the test results, while the mass density had a significant effect. The conclusions may play a certain role in guiding slope construction and protection.


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