China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (10): 57-62.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.10.2246

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Slope seepage failure analysis based on improved Green-Ampt model

REN Qingyang1,2(), CHEN Bin1,2, MENG Xin1,2, JIN Honghua1,2, BIAN Linlin1,2, ZHENG Shiyue3   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
    2 School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
    3 China Overseas Construction Limited, Shenzhen Guangdong 518053, China
  • Received:2022-04-12 Revised:2022-08-18 Online:2022-10-28 Published:2023-04-28

Abstract:

In order to solve the safety and stability problem of slope water seepage failure caused by rainfall, taking a bridge foundation slope as an example, the Green-Ampt infiltration model was improved by fully considering the catchment effect of slope flow. Based on the improved model, the temporal and spatial characteristics of slope rainwater infiltration under continuous heavy rainfall were calculated, and the progressive failure process of slope with rainwater infiltration is simulated by FLAC3D software. The results show that the characteristics of the wetting front obtained by the improved model are in agree with the engineering practice. The farther away from the slope top, the greater the rainwater infiltration depth, and the slower the rainwater infiltration rate with the extension of the rainfall time. The depth of the wetting front caused by overland flow accounts for a large proportion of the total depth, andwhich is more than 50% at the front of the slope in the first 5 hours. The failure of slope develops gradually from toe to top and from shallow to deep, and has obvious characteristics of time discontinuity and multi-layer progressive backward progressive damage.

Key words: Green-Ampt model, seepage failure, bridge foundation slope, gravel soil, progressive failure, numerical simulation