Simulation of Landslide Seepage Field with the Action of Reservoir Water Fluctuations

Abstract:

Taking a landslide in the three gorges reservoir area as an example and considering the seepage field in different time periods with rise and fall of reservoir water level of the eight conditions, we use GEO-STUDIO / SEEP module to establish a seepage model and to calculate the distribution of seepage. The results showed that: the groundwater saturation line appears in the back-phenomenon during a certain range of slope in the rising water level, saturation line was concave shape, and with the rate of increase in water level increased and that concavity gradually increase; the groundwater saturation line appears in the downstream phenomenon during a certain range of slope in the drawdown water level, saturation line was convex shape, and with the rate of decline in water level increased and that convexity increases. The effective simulation studies of the greatly and cyclical fluctuations of water level under the slope seepage field has a certain reference meaning to the landslide control in the reservoir water level fluctuations about reservoir bank landslide.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 71-78)
• Pages: 4802-4807
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.71-78.4802
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Wei Mao, E Chuan Yan, Yang Bing Cao, Sheng Lai Jiang
• Keywords: Numerical Simulation, Reservoir Bank Landslide, Seepage Field, Water Level Fluctuation

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