The significance of climate on deformation in a rock-slope failure – the Åkerneset case study from Norway

2005 ◽  
pp. 735-740
Keyword(s):  
Slope Failure ◽  
Rock Slope

scholarly journals ROCK SLOPE SURFACE STABILITY ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY ON HON LON ISLAND, KIEN HAI DISTRICT, KIEN GIANG PROVINCE, VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 340-350
Author(s):  
Ngoc Binh Vu ◽  
Truong Thanh Phi ◽  
Thanh Cong Nguyen ◽  
Hong Thinh Phi ◽  
Quy Nhan Pham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Slope Failure ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Slope Surface ◽  
Plane Failure ◽  
Surface Stability ◽  
Average Percentage ◽  
The Road ◽  
Wedge Failure ◽  
Analytical Results

The research aimed to study 24 rock slope surfaces along the road around Hon Lon Island, Kien Hai district, Kien Giang province, Vietnam. The analytical results have determined slope failure, wedge failure, and toppling, which occurred on almost slope surface and the average percentage of plane failure is the largest. The average percent of plane failure is 19.23%, the wedge failure is 15.35%, and the toppling fault is 6.73%. Besides, the analytical results have also identified the slope surfaces which can be the key blocks: ND-13, 18, 23, 25, 34, 37, 45, 51, 62, 63. The other analytical results show that the existence of key blocks at the rock slope surfaces in the N-S direction, dip to E at the survey locations: ND-13, 23, 63 and dip to W at the survey locations: ND-37, 45; in the NE-SW direction, dip to SE at the survey locations: ND-15, 62 and dip to NW at the survey locations: ND-18, 34; in the NW-SE direction, dip to SW at the survey location ND-51. These results have important significance to support for protecting slope surface safety.

A paraglacial rock-slope failure origin for cirques: a case study from Northern Iceland

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Coquin ◽  
Denis Mercier ◽  
Olivier Bourgeois ◽  
Armelle Decaulne
Keyword(s):  
Slope Failure ◽  
Rock Slope

scholarly journals A temperature- and stress-controlled failure criterion for ice-filled permafrost rock joints

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 3333-3353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Mamot ◽  
Samuel Weber ◽  
Tanja Schröder ◽  
Michael Krautblatter
Keyword(s):  
Normal Stress ◽  
Failure Criterion ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Shear Resistance ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Rock Joints ◽  
Normal Stresses ◽  
Permafrost Rock ◽  
Limestone Sample

Abstract. Instability and failure of high mountain rock slopes have significantly increased since the 1990s coincident with climatic warming and are expected to rise further. Most of the observed failures in permafrost-affected rock walls are likely triggered by the mechanical destabilisation of warming bedrock permafrost including ice-filled joints. The failure of ice-filled rock joints has only been observed in a small number of experiments, often using concrete as a rock analogue. Here, we present a systematic study of the brittle shear failure of ice and rock–ice interfaces, simulating the accelerating phase of rock slope failure. For this, we performed 141 shearing experiments with rock–ice–rock “sandwich”' samples at constant strain rates (10−3 s−1) provoking ice fracturing, under normal stress conditions ranging from 100 to 800 kPa, representing 4–30 m of rock overburden, and at temperatures from −10 to −0.5 ∘C, typical for recent observed rock slope failures in alpine permafrost. To create close to natural but reproducible conditions, limestone sample surfaces were ground to international rock mechanical standard roughness. Acoustic emission (AE) was successfully applied to describe the fracturing behaviour, anticipating rock–ice failure as all failures are predated by an AE hit increase with peaks immediately prior to failure. We demonstrate that both the warming and unloading (i.e. reduced overburden) of ice-filled rock joints lead to a significant drop in shear resistance. With a temperature increase from −10 to −0.5 ∘C, the shear stress at failure reduces by 64 %–78 % for normal stresses of 100–400 kPa. At a given temperature, the shear resistance of rock–ice interfaces decreases with decreasing normal stress. This can lead to a self-enforced rock slope failure propagation: as soon as a first slab has detached, further slabs become unstable through progressive thermal propagation and possibly even faster by unloading. Here, we introduce a new Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion for ice-filled rock joints that is valid for joint surfaces, which we assume similar for all rock types, and which applies to temperatures from −8 to −0.5 ∘C and normal stresses from 100 to 400 kPa. It contains temperature-dependent friction and cohesion, which decrease by 12 % ∘C−1 and 10 % ∘C−1 respectively due to warming and it applies to temperature and stress conditions of more than 90 % of the recently documented accelerating failure phases in permafrost rock walls.

scholarly journals MAPPING LANDSLIDES IN LUNAR IMPACT CRATERS USING CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS AND DEM’S

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Yordanov ◽  
M. Scaioni ◽  
M. T. Brunetti ◽  
M. T. Melis ◽  
A. Zinzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Chebyshev Polynomials ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Statistical Testing ◽  
Mass Wasting ◽  
Optical Images ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Lunar Impact

Geological slope failure processes have been observed on the Moon surface for decades, nevertheless a detailed and exhaustive lunar landslide inventory has not been produced yet. For a preliminary survey, WAC images and DEM maps from LROC at 100 m/pixels have been exploited in combination with the criteria applied by Brunetti et al. (2015) to detect the landslides. These criteria are based on the visual analysis of optical images to recognize mass wasting features. In the literature, Chebyshev polynomials have been applied to interpolate crater cross-sections in order to obtain a parametric characterization useful for classification into different morphological shapes. Here a new implementation of Chebyshev polynomial approximation is proposed, taking into account some statistical testing of the results obtained during Least-squares estimation. The presence of landslides in lunar craters is then investigated by analyzing the absolute values off odd coefficients of estimated Chebyshev polynomials. A case study on the Cassini A crater has demonstrated the key-points of the proposed methodology and outlined the required future development to carry out.

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