The Effect of Rainfall Infiltration Time to the Unsaturated Soil Slope Stability

Abstract:

Rainfall infiltration is currently one of the important factors in studying the soil-slope stability. By using saturated-unsaturated seepage theory, the traditional limit equilibrium method and so on, analyze the water content and the pore-water pressure changes under the rainfall condition, then analyze the influence mechanism of the slope stability. Through the Seep/W and the Slope/W of the GEO-Slope software, do the numerical simulation of the slope stability under the rainfall condition, to seek the distribution of pore-water pressure on the rainfall situation and the influence of the seepage field from various parameters such as rainfall intensity and the soil permeability coefficient, thus to study the slope stability.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 71-78)
• Pages: 4864-4867
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.71-78.4864
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Guang Hua Cai, Hai Jun Lu, Wei He, Long Guan, Wei Qi Xu
• Keywords: Pore-Water Pressure, Rain Infiltration, Saturated-Unsaturated Seepage, Slope Stability

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