›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 778-781.

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Effects of rainfall infiltration and evaporation on soil slope stability

WEI Ning1, QIAN Ping-yi2, FU Xu-dong1   

  1. (1.School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; 2.Guangdong Technical College of Water Resources and Electric Engineering, Guangzhou 510635, China
  • Received:2004-01-28 Online:2006-05-10 Published:2013-11-05

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Abstract: It is advantageous to know how much rainwater decreases or evaporation increases the stability of a soil slope. Numerical model was used to quantify the effect of rainwater and evaporation on the stability of a case slope. With raining model and evaporation model, unsaturated-unsteady seepage analysis was used to calculate pore pressure of the case slope, and Bishop Equilibrium balance method with total cohesion was used to calculate the stability factor of the case slope. Relationships between the pore pressure and time, between the safety of stability and time were obtained. Results show that changes in slope stability and pore pressure lag behind the change of weather; infiltration and evaporation affect the stability of shallow slip surface greatly, the stability of deep slip surface relatively little; in the process of rain, the critical slip surface changes from deep surface to relative shallow surface, in the process of evaporation, the situation is opposite.

Key words: unsaturated soil, unsaturated -unsteady seepage, slope stability, rainfall and evaporation, FEM

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  • TU 432
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