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Creep properties of sliding-zone soil from a creeping landslide

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  • 1. Engineering Exploration and Survey Department, Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311122, China; 2. Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China; 3. School of Water Conservancy, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, Henan 450045, China

Received date: 2016-04-20

  Online published: 2018-06-05

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This work was supported by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (973 Program) (2011CB710604) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41272305).

Abstract

A creeping landslide shows a deformation response of long-term and small-scale, the evolution and stability of which are controlled by the creep response of sliding-zone soil. The Majiagou landslide, a typical creeping landslide in Three Gorges reservoir region, is selected as a case. A series of large-scale triaxial compression tests is conducted on the undisturbed specimens of sliding-zone soil to reveal the creep laws of sliding-zone soil under different confining pressures and stress levels. On this basis, the difference between long-term strength and conventional strength of the soil is determined by the isochronous curves. The results show that the sliding-zone soil of Majiagou landslide has steady creep characteristic, and the creep process can be divided into attenuation creep stage and constant speed creep stage. And the deformation tendency of sliding-zone soil is similar to the macroscopic deformation of the landslide. The absolute creep displacement and the strain rate of constant speed creep stage are positively correlated with the axial stress. While the duration of the attenuation creep stage increases linearly with the shear stress level. The long-term cohesion and the long-term internal frictional angle decrease by 24.8% and 22.4% respectively comparing with the conventional strength parameters.

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SUN Miao-jun, TANG Hui-ming, WANG Xiao-hong, HU Xin-li, WANG Ming-yuan, NI Wei-da, . Creep properties of sliding-zone soil from a creeping landslide[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2017 , 38(2) : 385 -391 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2017.02.011

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