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Often, excavations of natural slopes are necessary in the site area for the construction of civil or industrial objectives. The execution of such works requires special attention, from the design phase, regarding the stability of the slope in the initial state, but also after excavation and identification, if necessary, of technical solutions to in...
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... Among various human engineering activities, slope excavation engineering is one of the most commonly seen activities triggering landslides [9][10][11]. The slope excavation-induced landslides are usually characterized by translational movement, where the rock slopes are prone to slides along the 2 bedding planes of underlying strata aligned in a subparallel manner to topography [12][13][14][15]. ...
Translational rockslides caused by toe excavation are one of the commonly seen geohazards in mountainous regions due to line traffic construction. Quantifying their failure extension length (FEL) and travel distance are of significant interest as well as huge challenges in landslide hazard assessment. In this paper, a simple criterion is proposed for predicting these two factors based on the principles of rigid body limit equilibrium and kinetic energy theorem. Further, the proposed criterion is validated against the field observations and numerical results with a practical case of the Xinjianan landslide, a medium-sized translational rockslide that occurred in 2013 in Nanchuan District, Chongqing. The findings indicate that a tiny discrepancy can be found in FEL between the field observations and the proposed criteria, while this discrepancy could be considerable in travel distance between different methods. However, the relative discrepancies all fall within 20%, deemed acceptable.
It is well known that the deformation and failure during the slope excavation often depends on the excavation height and slope rate. Based on the theory of loading and unloading response ratio, the present study established an evaluation model of the excavation dynamic load-increasing displacement response ratio and created the instability criterion. During the excavation, the stability law of the Chaqishan ancient landslide was analyzed using the Midas GTS NX finite element software, and four slope excavation schemes were redesigned. The results show that, the variation law of the excavation dynamic load-increasing displacement response ratio was consistent with the evolution law of stability coefficient, and there was an obvious negative correlation between them. Therefore, the stability variation law in the slope excavation could be evaluated using the evaluation model of excavation dynamic load -increasing displacement response ratio.
