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Reliable Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Slope Instability

강우로 인한 사면의 불안정성에 대한 신뢰성 있는 평가

  • 김윤기 (KAIST 건설및환경공학과) ;
  • 최정찬 (KAIST 건설및환경공학과) ;
  • 이승래 (KAIST 건설및환경공학과) ;
  • 성주현 (한국시설안전관리공단 기술개발팀)
  • Published : 2009.05.31
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Abstract

Many slope failures are induced by rainfall infiltration. A lot of recent researches are therefore focused on rainfall-induced slope instability and the rainfall infiltration is recognized as the important triggering factor. The rainfall infiltrates into the soil slope and makes the matric suction lost in the slope and even the positive pore water pressure develops near the surface of the slope. They decrease the resisting shear strength. In Korea, a few public institutions suggested conservative slope design guidelines that assume a fully saturated soil condition. However, this assumption is irrelevant and sometimes soil properties are misused in the slope design method to fulfill the requirement. In this study, a more relevant slope stability evaluation method is suggested to take into account the real rainfall infiltration phenomenon. Unsaturated soil properties such as shear strength, soil-water characteristic curve and permeability for Korean weathered soils were obtained by laboratory tests and also estimated by artificial neural network models. For real-time assessment of slope instability, failure warning criteria of slope based on deterministic and probabilistic analyses were introduced to complement uncertainties of field measurement data. The slope stability evaluation technique can be combined with field measurement data of important factors, such as matric suction and water content, to develop an early warning system for probably unstable slopes due to the rainfall.

강우침투로 인하여 많은 사면이 붕괴되고 있다. 따라서 사면에 대한 최근 연구들은 강우가 유발하는 사면의 불안정성에 초점이 맞춰져 있으며 강우침투 문제는 중요한 사면붕괴 발생 요인으로 인식되고 있다. 강우가 사면 내부의 모관흡수력을 감소시키면서 사면 내부로 침투되며 심지어 지반특성에 따라 표층 근에서 양의 간극수압이 발생할 수도 있다. 이러한 현상은 사면 강도를 감소시켜 사면 붕괴를 유발할 수 있다. 국내 여러 공공기관에서는 지하수위가 표층 또는 밀정 깊이 내에 존재하도록 하여 사면의 포화상태를 가정하는 보수적인 사면 설계방안을 제시하였으나, 이러한 가정은 대부분 부적절하고 이를 만족시키기 위해 때로는 사면설계 단계에서 잘못된 지반물성이 사용되기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 실제 강우침투 현상을 고려하여 보다 합리적으로 사면의 안정성을 평가하는 기법이 제안되었다. 국내 풍화토에 대한 불포화 지반물성(강도, 함수특성곡선, 투수곡선)이 실험적으로 획득되었으며, 인공신경망 모델을 통해 간접적으로도 추정되었다. 또한 현장 계측자료의 불확실성을 보완하기 위하여 사면의 불안정성 평가기법에 대하여 결정론적 해석과 확률론적 해석에 기반한 실시간 사면 붕괴 경보 기준이 모니터링 시스템에 도입되었다. 이러한 사면안정성 평가기법은 사면 내부의 모관흡수력, 함수비와 같은 중요요소를 계측한 현장자료와 접목하여 강우에 따라 불안정해진 사면에 대한 조기 경보시스템으로 활용될 수 있다.

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