Assessment of slope stability in cohesive soils due to a rainfall

The primary focus in this work is on proposing a methodology for the assessment of stability of natural/engineered slopes in clayey soils subjected to water infiltration. In natural deposits of fine‐grained soils, the presence of water in the vicinity of minerals results in an interparticle bonding. This effect cannot be easily quantified as it involves complex chemical interactions at the micromechanical level. Here, the evolution of strength properties, including the apparent cohesion resulting from initial suction at the irreducible fluid saturation, is described by employing the framework of chemoplasticity. The paper provides first the formulation of the problem; this involves specification of the constitutive relation, development of an implicit return mapping scheme, and the outline of a coupled transient formulation. The framework is then applied to examine the stability of a slope subjected to a prolonged period of intensive rainfall. It is shown that the water infiltration may trigger the loss of stability resulting from the degradation of material properties. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一种高温下混凝土化学塑性-损伤耦合本构模型

提出了一个用于模拟高温下混凝土化学塑性-损伤耦合本构行为的数值模型。发展了一个化学塑性-损伤耦合分析的一致性应力返回映射算法。为了保证对于全局守恒方程Newton迭代过程的2阶收敛率,推导并形成了一致性切线模量矩阵。数值算例显示了文中发展的化学塑性-损伤耦合本构模型在模拟高温下混凝土中复杂破坏过程的能力和有效性。