標題: Numerical modeling of rainstorm-induced shallow landslides in saturated and unsaturated soils
作者: Tsai, Tung-Lin
Chen, Hung-En
Yang, Jinn-Chuang
土木工程學系
Department of Civil Engineering
關鍵字: shallow landslide;saturated and unsaturated soils;rainstorm
公開日期: 1-Sep-2008
摘要: For the assessment of shallow landslides triggered by rainfall, the physically based model coupling the infinite slope stability analysis with the hydrological modeling in nearly saturated soil has commonly been used due to its simplicity. However, in that model the rainfall infiltration in unsaturated soil could not be reliably simulated because a linear diffusion-type Richards' equation rather than the complete Richards' equation was used. In addition, the effect of matric suction on the shear strength of soil was not actually considered. Therefore, except the shallow landslide in saturated soil due to groundwater table rise, the shallow landslide induced by the loss in unsaturated shear strength due to the dissipation of matric suction could not be reliably assessed. In this study, a physically based model capable of assessing shallow landslides in variably saturated soils is developed by adopting the complete Richards' equation with the effect of slope angle in the rainfall infiltration modeling and using the extended Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion to describe the unsaturated shear strength in the soil failure modeling. The influence of rainfall intensity and duration on shallow landslide is investigated using the developed model. The result shows that the rainfall intensity and duration seem to have similar influence on shallow landslides respectively triggered by the increase of positive pore water pressure in saturated soil and induced by the dissipation of matric suction in unsaturated soil. The rainfall duration threshold decreases with the increase in rainfall intensity, but remains constant for large rainfall intensity.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00254-007-1075-1
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/8388
ISSN: 0943-0105
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1075-1
期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
Volume: 55
Issue: 6
起始頁: 1269
結束頁: 1277
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