Landslides modeled as bifurcations of creeping slopes with nonlinear friction law

DOI10.1016/0020-7683(94)00317-PMaRDI QIDQ675653zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors K. T. Chau

Publication date 2 December 1997

Published in International Journal of Solids and Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7683(94)00317-P

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationfinite perturbationnonlinear numerical analysisrainfall erosionslip surfaceslope failuresmall perturbation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equilibrium (steady-state) problems in solid mechanics (74G99) Dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H99) Soil and rock mechanics (74L10)

Review text

This paper investigates landslide as a consequence of the unstable slide of an initially stationary or creeping slope triggered by a small perturbation, such as the effect due to rainfall. A fully nonlinear numerical analysis is done for all possible scenarios when a finite perturbation is imposed on the equilibrium state. As a slip continues and erosion due to rainfall occurs, nonlinear parameters of the slip surface may evolve such that a previously stable slope may become unstable (i.e. bifurcation occurs) when a small perturbation is imposed. Thus, the present analysis offers a plausible explanation to why slope failure occurs at a particular rainfall, which is not the largest in the history of the slope.

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