Rainfall-Induced Soil Slope Failure

Stability Analysis and Probabilistic Assessment
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4987-5279-4
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1156 g

Rainfall-induced landslides are common around the world. With global climate change, their frequency is increasing and the consequences are becoming greater. Previous studies assess them mostly from the perspective of a single discipline—correlating landslides with rainstorms, geomorphology and hydrology in order to establish a threshold prediction value for rainfall-induced landslides; analyzing the slope’s stability using a geomechanical approach; or assessing the risk from field records.

Rainfall Induced Soil Slope Failure: Stability Analysis and Probabilistic Assessment integrates probabilistic approaches with the geotechnical modeling of slope failures under rainfall conditions with unsaturated soil. It covers theoretical models of rainfall infiltration and stability analysis, reliability analysis based on coupled hydro-mechanical modelling, stability of slopes with cracks, gravels and spatial heterogenous soils, and probabilistic model calibration based on measurement. It focuses on the uncertainties involved with rainfall-induced landslides and presents state-of-the art techniques and methods which characterize the uncertainties and quantify the probabilities and risk of rainfall-induced landslide hazards.

Additionally, the authors cover:

- The failure mechanisms of rainfall-induced slope failure

- Commonly used infiltration and stability methods

- The infiltration and stability of natural soil slopes with cracks and colluvium materials

- Stability evaluation methods based on probabilistic approaches

- The effect of spatial variability on unsaturated soil slopes and more

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Lulu

Li, Jinhui

Li, Xu

Zhang, Jie

Zhu, Hong

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Boden- und Felsmechanik, Geotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Infiltration and Seepage Analysis in Soil Slopes. Stability Analysis of Slope under Rainfall Infiltration Based on Limit Equilibrium. Coupled Hydromechanical Analysis for Unsaturated Soil Slope. Stability of Soil Slope with Cracks. Stability Analysis of Colluvium Slopes upon a Rainstorm. Reliability Analysis of Slope under Rainfall. Probabilistic Assessment of Random Heterogeneous Soil Slopes. Probabilistic Model Calibration.

Über Autor(innen)

Lulu Zhang Lulu is a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China.

Jinhui Li is an associate professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Xu Li is an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China.

Jie Zhang is an associate professor at Tongji University, China.

Hong Zhu is a research assistant at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.