Physical model test on a reservoir landslide with double sliding zones subjected to water level fluctuation and rainfall
["Liao, Kang","Miao, Fasheng","Wu, Yiping","Zheng, Hai"]
2025-06-01
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In this paper, the Huangtupo Riverside Slump 1#, a reservoir landslide with double sliding zones in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area of China, is selected as the prototype for a scaled physical model test subjected to water level fluctuation and rainfall. The spatial-temporal characteristics of the multi-physical monitoring data are thus obtained, including the pore water pressure, earth pressure, surface deformation, and deep deformation. Subsequently, the failure mechanism and evolution process of the landslide model are discussed. The results indicate that the rise and fall of reservoir water correspondingly increase and decrease the pore water pressure and earth pressure at the front edge of the model, while having almost no effect on the trailing edge. The rainfall increases the pore water pressure and soil pressure of the entire model, and the increase is proportional to its duration and intensity but limited by the height of overlying soil. Both the surface deformation and deep deformation increase with the fall of reservoir water and rainfall. Except for the weakening effect of the soil caused by the first rise of reservoir water, which results in a certain surface deformation and deep deformation, the surface deformation has almost no response with the subsequent rises, while the deep deformation decreases with the rises. The Riverside Slump 1-1# exhibits the characteristics of retrogressive failure with whole evolution phases, while the Riverside Slump 1-2# exhibits a composite evolution, in which its middle front belongs to the retrogressive failure within the initial deformation, and the trailing edge belongs to the progressive failure within the accelerated deformation.
来源平台:BULLETIN OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT