• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2012

저강도 강우상태에서 투수계수가 일반적인 절토사면의 흡인력 분포와 안정성에 어떤 영향을 주는지를 평가하였다. 지하수면 위의 불포화 지층의 초기 흡인력을 15 kPa로 가정하였다. 강우 지속시간 증가에 따른 절토사면의 안정성을 평가하기 위해 유한요소법과 한계평형법을 사용하였다. 유한요소 침투해석 결과, 저강도 강우상태에서는 불포화 지층이 계속해서 불포화 상태로 유지되는 현상을 보였다. 또한, 침윤선(wetting front)이 불포화 지층에 남아있는 경우에는 사면의 안정성에 사실상 변화가 없었으나, 침윤선(wetting front)이 지하수면에 도달하는 경우에는 지하수면이 높아짐에 따라 사면안정성이 크게 저하되었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

Shallow failures occur frequently in both engineered and natural slopes in expansive soils. Rainfall infiltration is the most predominant triggering factor that contributes to slope failures in both expansive soils and clayey soils. However, slope failures in expansive soils have some distinct characteristics in comparison to slopes in conventional clayey soils. They typically undergo shallow failures with gentle sliding retrogression characteristics. The shallow sliding mass near the slope surface is typically in a state of unsaturated condition and will exhibit significant volume changes with increasing water content during rainfall periods. Many other properties or characteristics change such as the shear strength, matric suction including stress distribution change with respect to depth and time. All these parameters have a significant contribution to the expansive soil slopes instability and are difficult to take into consideration in slope stability analysis using traditional slope stability analysis methods based on principles of saturated soil mechanics. In this paper, commercial software VADOSE/W that can account for climatic factors is used to predict variation of matric suction with respect to time for an expansive soil cut slope in China, which is reported in the literature. The variation of factor of safety with respect to time for this slope is computed using SLOPE/W by taking account of shear strength reduction associated with loss of matric suction extending state-of-the art understanding of the mechanics of unsaturated soils.