- Title
- Quantitative risk assessment of slope failure in 2-D spatially variable soils by limit equilibrium method
- Creator
- Jiang, Shui-Hua; Huang, Jinsong; Yao, Chi; Yang, Jianhua
- Relation
- Applied Mathematical Modelling Vol. 47, Issue July 2017, p. 710-725
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2017.03.048
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Quantitative risk assessment of slope failure is an important prerequisite for formulating rational strategies for landslide risk mitigation and developing a landslide risk-based warning system. Efficient risk assessment of slope failure in two-dimensional (2-D) spatially variable soils is a challenging problem. This paper proposes an efficient approach for quantitative risk assessment of slope failure considering the 2-D spatial variation of soil properties in the limit equilibrium analysis framework. To facilitate the risk assessment of slope failure, an empirical method is developed for the identification of slope key failure modes. With the proposed approach, the key failure modes of the spatially variable slope can be well identified and their contributions to the risk of slope failure can be effectively quantified. Finally, a two-layered soil slope is studied to illustrate the proposed approach. It is found that the prominent advantages of the proposed approach include being computationally efficient and accounting for the effect of the correlations among the failure modes.
- Subject
- slope stability; system reliability; risk assessment; probability of failure; spatial variability
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1355442
- Identifier
- uon:31463
- Identifier
- ISSN:0307-904X
- Language
- eng
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