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The Development of Rail-Transport Operation Control based on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Concept  

Kim, Hyun-Ki (한국철도기술연구원)
Shin, Min-Ho (한국철도기술연구원)
Kim, Soo-Sam (한양대학교 토목환경공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation / v.4, no.1, 2004 , pp. 25-31 More about this Journal
Abstract
Infiltration of rainfall causes railway embankment to be unstable and may result in failure. Basic relationship between the rainfall and stability of railway embankment is defined to analyze the stability of embankment by rainfall. An experimental study for defining of infiltration rate of rainfall into slope is conducted in the lab. The results of Rainfall Infiltration show that rainfall Infiltration is not equal to infiltration as like reservoir because rate of rainfall infiltration is controlled by slope angle. Based on these results, boundary condition of rainfall is altered and various numerical analysis are performed. The variation of shear strength, the degree of saturation and pore-water pressure for railway slope during rainfall can be predicted and the safety factor of railway slope can be expressed as the function of rainfall amount, namely rainfall index. Therefore, it is judged that this rainfall index can be a good tool for the rail-transport operation control.
Keywords
rail-transport operation control; rainfall index; rainfall infiltration; stability of railway slope; train speed;
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