As a typical and complex failure type of rock slopes, flexural toppling failure has increasingly received attention, mainly focused on its failure mechanism and introducing a proper numerical method to reproduce the failure phenomena. However, there are few studies related to the supporting mechanism against flexural toppling failure. This study attempted to make a preliminary analysis on the research gap. For this purpose, an anti-dip layered rock slope supported with anchor cables that failed owning to flexural toppling was taken as an example, and the numerical method discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) was taken as the major analytical tool. Firstly, the rationality of DDA was verified by correctly simulating the failure state of the anti-layered rock slope and the underlying failure mechanism was studied. The results indicated that the lack of the support from slope toe is the crucial factor inducing the flexural toppling failure, which posed a great obstacle to the further excavation of the open-pit mine. Secondly, by introducing the anchor cable support to the slope toe in the DDA model, the interaction mechanism between the anchor cables and the rock slope was investigated. the results indicated that the supporting system of the ordinary anchor cables is very sensitive to the inhomogeneous flexural toppling deformation. The tension values of the anchor cables are very inhomogeneous, and once some of anchor cables beyond their tension limit, the anchor cables failed, which will greatly threaten the safety of the adjacent anchor cables and even the stability of the whole slope. Meanwhile, a novel anchor cable called constant-resistance-large-deformation (CRLD) anchor cable was introduced for a comparative study using DDA. just replacing the anchor cables of the original slope with the CRLD anchor cables, the slope can reach stable state eventually even without the slope toe being enhanced. In addition, the CRLD anchor cables were able to support the slope well against the inhomogeneous deformation, because they can provide high constant resistances and withstand large deformations. This study can provide a deeper insight into the support mechanism for the snit-layered rock slope against flexural toppling failure and introduce a novel supporting method for such slopes.


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    Titel :

    Feasibility Analysis on the Support of Rock Slopes Against Flexural Toppling Failure Using the DDA Method-A Case Study


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


    Beteiligte:
    Gong, Wen Jun (Autor:in) / Tao, Zhi Gang (Autor:in) / He, Man Chao (Autor:in) / Hou, Hui Jun (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-09-01


    Format / Umfang :

    16 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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