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Probabilistic analysis of anisotropic rock slope with reinforcement measures

  • Received : 2023.02.27
  • Accepted : 2023.06.29
  • Published : 2023.08.10
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Abstract

During the construction of E75 highway through Grdelica gorge in Serbia, a major failure occurred in the zone of reinforced rock slope. Excavation was performed in highly anisotropic Paleozoic schist rock formation. The reinforcement consisted of the two rows of micropile wall with pre-stressed anchors. Forces in anchors were monitored with load cells while benchmarks were installed for superficial displacement measurements. The aim of the study is to investigate possible causes of instability considering different probability distributions of the strength of discontinuities and anchor bond strength by applying different optimization techniques for finding the critical failure surface. Even though the deterministic safety factor value is close to unity, the probability of failure is governed by variability of shear strength of anisotropic planes and optimization method used for locating the critical sliding surface. The Cuckoo search technique produces higher failure probabilities compared to the others. Depending on the assigned statistical distribution of input parameters, various performance functions of the factor of safety are obtained. The probability of failure is insensitive to the variation of bond strength. Different sampling techniques should yield similar results considering that the sufficient number of safety factor evaluations is chosen to achieve converged solution.

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Acknowledgement

This paper is funded by the Government of the Republic of Serbia (The Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia), as a part of Serbian Science and Diaspora Collaboration Program - project Rock slope stability - back analysis of failures along rock cuttings - ROCKSTAB (application number 6524757). Also, the Erasmus+ grant (EMADRID03) for the stay of Professor Svetlana Melentijevic at the University of Belgrade is acknowledged.

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