Rock and Soil Mechanics ›› 2019, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 1663-1672.doi: 10.16285/j.rsm.2018.0114

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A coupled thermo- pore water-mechanical model for a weak interlayer in water saturated slope and its application

HE Gui-cheng, LIAO Jia-hai, LI Feng-xiong, WANG Zhao, ZHANG Qiu-cai, ZHANG Zhi-jun   

  1. School of Nuclear Resource Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan 421001, China
  • Received:2018-01-18 Online:2019-05-11 Published:2019-06-02
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51374129,51774187), the Key Research and Development Program of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department (2017SK2280), the Key Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province (17A184), the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2017JJ4009) and the Innovation Team Project Plan for Prediction and Control of Uranium Mine Geotechnical Engineering Disaster of USC (NHCXTD04).

Abstract: To investigate the effect of temperature on mechanical parameters of a weak interlayer in water-saturated slope, the interlayer is regarded as a linear elastic body of coupled solid-liquid phase. A mechanical model for the thermal-pore water-mechanical interaction of the interlayer in water-saturated slope is established, and its coupling control equation is deduced. Using the physical similarity method, an experimental model similar to the slope prototype is established to study the variations of the inerlayer mechanical parameters caused by temperature. The proposed model is verified by comparing the theoretical results with the corresponding experimental results. It is found that the pore water pressure coefficient and thermal expansion coefficient are the key factors causing the increase of pore water pressure in the saturated interlayer. The pore water pressure coefficient depends on the compression characteristics of pore drainage and the solid medium. The larger the difference between these two compression characteristics, the larger the pore water pressure coefficient. Thermal expansion coefficient of pore water and thermal expansion coefficient of pore volume are the main factors affecting thermal pressure coefficient. A larger difference between them can result in a greater thermal pressure coefficient. Pore water pressure in the saturated interlayer slowly increases first and then dramatically increases with the increase of temperature, while the cohesion and shear strength of the saturated interlayer tardily decrease with the increase of temperature. Theoretical values of the saturated interlayer pore water pressure are in good agreement with the results from model test. Therefore, the proposed model can reflect the change characteristics of pore water pressure at different temperatures, which can provide some useful references to predict and control the stability of similar saturated slopes containing a weak interlayer.

Key words: saturated slope, temperature, coupled thermo-pore water-mechanical model, thermal expansion coefficient, pore water pressure coefficient

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  • O 319.56
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