Thermo-mechanical modelling for velocity prediction in catastrophic landslides
Cecinato, F. and Zervos, A. (2008) Thermo-mechanical modelling for velocity prediction in catastrophic landslides. In, Geophysical Research Abstracts volume 10 (Proceedings of the 2008 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union), Vienna, Austria, 13 - 18 Apr 2008. European Geosciences Union.
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Thermal pressurisation has been proposed in literature as the key phenomenon to interpret the mechanics of the final collapse of large slope failures. A new thermomechanical model is proposed by improving on an existing one, applicable to large landslides and rockslides consisting of a coherent mass sliding on a thin clayey layer. The considered time window is that of catastrophic acceleration, which starts at incipient failure and ends a few seconds later, when the acquired displacement and velocity are such that the landslide is broken up into pieces. The model takes into account frictional heating, pore pressure build-up and thermoplastic collapse of the soil skeleton, leading to the vanishing of shear resistance and unconstrained acceleration. First, an existing thermo-elasto-plastic constitutive model for clays is discussed, and modified by re-formulating it in a general stress space and taking into account thermal softening. The soil constitutive model is then employed into an existing 1-D landslide model (Vardoulakis 2002), resulting in a set of three equations describing the time evolution of temperature, excess pore pressures within the shearband and slide velocity. The resulting model equations are shown to be well-posed, and then are discretised and integrated numerically to back-analyse the final stage of the case history of Vajont that occurred in Italy in 1963. Finally, a generalisation of this model and its potential applicability to the velocity back-prediction of other well-documented case histories are discussed.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | T Technology T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment |
| Item ID: | 52721 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Aug 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:53 |
| Contributors: | Cecinato, F. (Author) Zervos, A. (Author) |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | European Geosciences Union |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/52721 |
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