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Dong-mei Sun, Xiao-min Li, Ping Feng, Yong-ge Zang. 2016: Stability analysis of unsaturated soil slope during rainfall infiltration using coupled liquid-gas-solid three-phase model. Water Science and Engineering, 9(3): 183-194. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.06.008
Citation: Dong-mei Sun, Xiao-min Li, Ping Feng, Yong-ge Zang. 2016: Stability analysis of unsaturated soil slope during rainfall infiltration using coupled liquid-gas-solid three-phase model. Water Science and Engineering, 9(3): 183-194. doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.06.008

Stability analysis of unsaturated soil slope during rainfall infiltration using coupled liquid-gas-solid three-phase model

doi: 10.1016/j.wse.2016.06.008
Funds:  This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 51579170 and 51179118) and the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51321065).
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  • Corresponding author: Dong-mei Sun
  • Received Date: 2015-10-13
  • Rev Recd Date: 2016-06-20
  • Generally, most soil slope failures are induced by rainfall infiltration, a process that involves interactions between the liquid phase, gas phase, and solid skeleton in an unsaturated soil slope. In this study, a loosely coupled liquid-gas-solid three-phase model, linking two numerical codes, TOUGH2/EOS3, which is used for water-air two-phase flow analysis, and FLAC3D, which is used for mechanical analysis, was established. The model was validated through a documented water drainage experiment over a sandy column and a comparison of the results with measured data and simulated results from other researchers. The proposed model was used to investigate the features of water-air two-phase flow and stress fields in an unsaturated soil slope during rainfall infiltration. The slope stability analysis was then performed based on the simulated water-air two-phase seepage and stress fields on a given slip surface. The results show that the safety factor for the given slip surface decreases first, then increases, and later decreases until the rainfall stops. Subsequently, a sudden rise occurs. After that, the safety factor decreases continually and reaches its lowest value, and then increases slowly to a steady value. The lowest value does not occur when the rainfall stops, indicating a delayed effect of the safety factor. The variations of the safety factor for the given slip surface are therefore caused by a combination of pore-air pressure, matric suction, normal stress, and net normal stress.

     

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