scholarly journals Study on the Influence of Pore Water Pressure on the Stability of Slope

Author(s):  
Yan Feng ◽  
Feng Zhu ◽  
Senlin Li ◽  
Ye Wu
2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 3488-3492
Author(s):  
Bao Lin Xiong ◽  
Jing Song Tang ◽  
Chun Jiao Lu

Rainfall is one of the main factors that influence the stability of slope. Rainfall infiltration will cause soil saturation changing and further influence pore water pressure and medium permeability coefficient. Based on porous media saturation-unsaturated flow theory, the slope transient seepage field is simulated under the conditions of rainfall infiltration. It is shown that change of pore water pressure in slope soil lag behind relative changes in rainfall conditions. As the rainfall infiltrate, unsaturated zone in top half of slope become diminution, the soil suction and shear strength reduce, so stabilization of soil slope is reduced.


2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 312-315
Author(s):  
Zeng Rong Liu ◽  
Shao Feng Luo

Aiming at researching on stability of high filling slope effected by precipitation duration. Transient saturated-unsaturated seepage method and slope stability finite element method is combined in this paper. Vadose field of slope is simulated in different precipitation duration condition. On the basis of vadose field author analyses the stability of slope effected by precipitation duration. The research results indicate that change of the pore water pressure is mainly concentrated in the position where the water level changes in the process of precipitation. After the precipitation pore water pressure gradually dissipates. Precipitation duration has great effect on the slope stability. With the precipitation duration increases the slope safety coefficient decreases. The slope safety coefficient decreases in the process of precipitation, but after precipitation, it increases gradually and eventually be more stable. The longer the precipitation duration is, the longer time that the safety coefficient reaches the ultimate stability required.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahila Beegum ◽  
P J Jainet ◽  
Dawn Emil ◽  
K P Sudheer ◽  
Saurav Das

Abstract Soil pore water pressure analysis is crucial for understanding landslide initiation and prediction. However, field-scale transient pore water pressure measurements are complex. This study investigates the integrated application of simulation models (HYDRUS-2D/3D and GeoStudio–Slope/W) to analyze pore water pressure-induced landslides. The proposed methodology is illustrated and validated using a case study (landslide in India, 2018). Model simulated pore water pressure was correlated with the stability of hillslope, and simulation results were found to be co-aligned with the actual landslide that occurred in 2018. Simulations were carried out for natural and modified hill slope geometry in the study area. The volume of water in the hill slope, temporal and spatial evolution of pore water pressure, and factor of safety were analysed. Results indicated higher stability in natural hillslope (factor of safety of 1.243) compared to modified hill slope (factor of safety of 0.946) despite a higher pore water pressure in the natural hillslope. The study demonstrates the integrated applicability of the physics-based models in analyzing the stability of hill slopes under varying pore water pressure and hill slope geometry and its accuracy in predicting future landslides.


2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Yasuo YANAKA ◽  
Akira TAKAHASHI ◽  
Yoshinobu HOS H INO ◽  
Tomokazu SUZUKI ◽  
Makoto NISHIGAKI ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delwyn G. Fredlund ◽  
Zai Ming Zhang ◽  
Karen Macdonald

The stability of potash tailings piles is investigated using a pore-water pressure generation and dissipation model together with a limit equilibrium analysis. It is found that a shallow toe failure mode is generally the most applicable and that the stability may be influenced by pore-water pressure migration below the pile. It is suggested that field studies would be useful in evaluating stability in the toe region of the pile. Key words : potash tailings, slope stability, pore pressure dissipation, solutioning.


Lithosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (Special 4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Dou ◽  
Yimin Liu ◽  
Xueyi Zhang ◽  
Yashan Wang ◽  
Zhou Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Although numerous studies have been paid much attention to rainfall-induced instability of multilayered slopes, the interface between layers is generally considered to be “zero thickness”, and the layer transition zone between layers is neglected. In this study, the influence of the layer transition zone on the rainfall-induced instability of multilayered slope was investigated. A model was developed to simulate the rainfall infiltration process, the distribution of pore water pressure, and the stability of multilayered slope by coupling the unsaturated seepage model and the slope stability analysis method. Based on the analysis of the multilayered slopes with the different thickness ratios of the layer transition zone, a method for determining the critical thickness of the layer transition zone was proposed. The results showed that the layer transition zone had a significant influence on the stability of multilayered slope. It was found that the presence of the layer transition zone in the multilayered slope reduced the hydraulic conductivity of the slope and increased the rate of formation of transient saturated zone, which contributed to excess pore water pressure at the toe of the slope. The analysis of the local factor of safety (LFS) showed that when the thickness ratios of the layer transition zone were between 2.5% and 5%, the corresponding hydraulic conductivity of the slope decreased by 1%-2.5% and the maximum failure area of the slope during the rainfall was 25% of the slope. Our study highlighted the importance of the layer transition zone for the rainfall-induced instability of the multilayered slope.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 6044
Author(s):  
Tan Manh Do ◽  
Jan Laue ◽  
Hans Mattsson ◽  
Qi Jia

One of the challenges in upstream tailings dam projects is to ensure the allowable rate of deposition of tailings in the pond (i.e., pond filling rate) while maintaining the stability of the dam. This is due to the fact that an upstream tailings dam is constructed by placing dikes on top of previously deposited soft tailings, which could lead to a decrease in dam stability because of the build-up of excess pore water pressure. The main purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of pond filling rates on excess pore water pressure and the stability of an upstream tailings dam by a numerical study. A finite element software was used to simulate the time-dependent pond filling process and staged dam construction under various pond filling rates. As a result, excess pore water pressure increased in each raising phase and decreased in the subsequent consolidation phase. However, some of the excess pore water pressure remained after every consolidation phase (i.e., the build-up of excess pore water pressure), which could lead to a potentially critical situation in the stability of the dam. In addition, the remaining excess pore water pressure varied depending on the pond filling rates, being larger for high filling rates and smaller for low filling rates. It is believed that the approach used in this study could be a guide for dam owners to keep a sufficiently high pond filling rate but still ensure the desirable stability of an upstream tailings dam.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Nanang Sutisna ◽  
M. Ichwanul Yusup ◽  
Euis Amilia Euis Amilia

The development of science and technology has obtained supporting technology for monitoring the soil shear force and pore water pressure in the dam, the presence of shear forces against the landfill and pore water pressure through small cavities in the embankment soil in the dam body which can be detected by equipment such as inclinometer and piezometer that have been installed at predetermined points. The application of inclinometer and piezometer technology is used as a support tool for monitoring the movement of landfill and pore water pressure against dams. The embankment dam is the most complex of civilian structures and is very dangerous if damaged. When there is damage to a dam, it will cause a big disaster for the areas that are downstream of the dam. Damage or collapse of a dam can occur due to several things, including overtopping, sliding of the dam slopes (internal erosion or "piping"), and the occurrence of structural degradation of each zone. on the dam body. In the analysis of the stability of the embankment (maindam) which is based on geotechnical instrument data, it must be carried out as carefully and accurately as possible. The purpose of this analysis is to measure the early damage in the main dam (maindam). After conducting research and field studies at the Sindang Heula dam, there were several points of decline at the top of the core embankment (maindam). To find out the cause of the decline, data was taken from measuring geotechnical instruments.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojtaba Gholamzade ◽  
Ahad Bagherzadeh Khalkhali

Abstract It is well known that construction of dams or reservoirs have geomorphological impacts on the environment and could potentially accelerate the occurrence of landslides. One of the most common impact is the occurrence of new landslides and activation of the old one, which may turn into a natural disaster. Thus, controlling the stability of landslides become challenging issue specifically in the presence of f pore-water pressure. In general, the presence of water or pore-water pressure reduces the soil resistance and also leads to increase in stimulus loads, resulting in reduction of stability coefficients. In the present study, using GeoStudio SLOPE/W software, the effect of the proximity of the dam reservoir in terms of different operating conditions on the stability analysis of the landslide area of ​​Zarm-Rood Dam is investigated. In the first step, the evaluation of internal stability of landslides and the effect of the presence of water on stability coefficients were evaluated and then the sustainable design of landslides was proposed. It was found that when extra pore-water pressure ranges from 0.2 to 0.4, safety factor is decreased by about 10%. Accordingly, safety factor is decreased by about 17% when extra pore-water pressure range from 0.4 to 0.6. This research demonstrates successful implementation of GeoStudio SLOPE/W for slope stability analysis in dam construction projects.


2011 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 1645-1649
Author(s):  
Feng Sun ◽  
Ji Ming Kong

The research is for the firs floods and the post-drought in Yunnan area in 2010. The strong rainfall and the hole pressure change are the red rock landslide most essential factor, so an apex post-modulus which indicates the effect of pore-water pressure on stress—strain curves transition is defined at the first. By combining with the stiffness criterion of landslide is analyzed. Consequently rainfall and other conditions changes have important effects induced landslides. It union research thinks of the elephant mountain landslide area, that red rock landslide slope body displacement and the rainfall amount relations and the slope body full water area compares and the stability of slope coefficient relations, establishes one under the strong rainfall function the red rock landslide cusp sudden change model, the quota and qualitative reveals the strong rainfall to the red rock landslide trigger action. This developed model may carry out some use full knowledge to understand the disaster mechanism and the evolutional or accumulative process of hazard factors in mountain red layer of the slope stability problem, which may mean the further to advance the technique of forecasting, it can provide important reference to the disaster prevention.


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