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Hydro-mechanical Behavior of Partially Saturated Soil Slopes under Rainfall

강우시 불포화토 사면에서의 수리역학적 거동 해석에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Jae-Hong (Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chonbuk National Univ.) ;
  • Im, Jae-Seong (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook Univ.) ;
  • Park, Seong-Wan (Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook Univ.)
  • 김재홍 (전북대학교 토목공학과) ;
  • 임재성 (단국대학교 토목환경공학과) ;
  • 박성완 (단국대학교 토목환경공학과)
  • Received : 2012.07.06
  • Accepted : 2012.11.12
  • Published : 2012.11.28
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Abstract

Conventional numerical analysis for rainfall-induced slope stability has been estimated by separating seepage and stress-strain behavior, respectively. Many researchers' models from commercial softwares and literatures define that partially saturated permeability is the only function of degree of saturation (or matrix suction) and then they do not consider hydraulic-mechanical characteristics for the analysis. However, in practice, the water flow processes in a deformable soil are influenced by soil skeleton movement and the pore water pressure changed due to seepage will lead to changes in stress and to deformation of a soil. The relationship between seepage and soil behavior causes a change of partially saturated permeability as well as saturated permeability with the lapse of time. Instability of partially saturated soil slopes due to infiltration would be analyzed from reduction of negative pore water pressure calculating the process of water flow based on predicted partially saturated permeability. Therefore, partially saturated permeability should be defined by the function of degree of saturation (or matric suction) and porosity. The paper presents the comparison between staggered and monolithic coupled analysis regarding seepage and stress deformation problems. As a result, the decrease in matric suction on soil slope from monolithic analysis is slower than that from staggered analysis.

강우로 인한 사면의 안정성 평가를 하기 위한 일반적인 해석 방법들은 강우 침투와 흙의 거동 해석을 개별적으로 구분하여 수행하고 있다. 따라서 상용화된 프로그램과 기 개발된 여러 연구자들의 모델들은 불포화 투수계수를 함수비(또는 흡수력)만의 함수로 정의되어 수리-역학적인 특징을 동시에 고려하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 그러나 실제 침투수는 사면의 거동을 발생시키고, 지반의 토립자들은 다시 재배열되며 이러한 구성관계에 의해 포화 투수계수 뿐만 아니라 불포화 투수계수도 시간에 따라 변화하게 된다. 강우로 인한 사면의 불안정성은 예측된 불포화 투수계수 값을 근간으로 사면 내 흡수력 감소를 계산함으로써 평가되고 불포화 투수계수는 함수비와 간극률의 함수로 정의되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 단계적으로 연결된 해석방법이 불포화 지반에서 침투수를 고려하고 흙의 변형을 예측하는 동시연동해석 결과보다 사면 내부에서 예측되는 흡수력의 변화가 시간에 따라 상대적으로 빠르게 감소함을 보여주고 있다.

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