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Infiltration Analysis for Surficial Stability Evaluation of Two-layered Slopes  

Cho Sung-Eun (Dam Safety Research Center, Korea Institute of Water and Environment)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.21, no.8, 2005 , pp. 45-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
Shallow slope failures in residual soil during periods of prolonged infiltration are common over the world. Therefore, this study examines an approximate method to estimate the influence of infiltration on surficial stability of slopes by one-dimensional infiltration model. Modified GAML model based on the Green-Ampt model was extended to predict the infiltration behavior of two-layered slope. Then, the model has been considered to evaluate the likelihood of shallow slope failure which is induced by a particular rainfall event that accounts for the rainfall intensity and duration for various return periods in two-layered soil profile. The results obtained from the approximate method were compared with those obtained from numerical analyses. According to the results, with the use of properly estimated input parameters, the proposed method was found to give good results that agree reasonably well to those of the more rigorous finite element analyses.
Keywords
Green-Ampt model; Soil water characteristic curve; Surficial stability; Two-layered slopes;
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