Abstract Probabilistic risk assessment of slope failure evaluates the slope safety in a quantitative manner, which considers the failure probability and failure consequence simultaneously. However, risk assessment of unsaturated slope accounting for spatially variable soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) model parameter and saturated hydraulic conductivity has been rarely reported. A probabilistic risk assessment approach is proposed in current study for rationally quantifying the unsaturated slope failure risk with the aid of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. The SEEP/W and SLOPE/W modules contained in Geostudio software are applied to carry out deterministic analysis, where factor of safety (FS) of the unsaturated slope is calculated by Morgenstern–Price method. The spatially variable hydraulic parameters are characterized by their respective random fields that are transferred from the random void ratio field in this study, rather than generating them separately. The proposed approach is subsequently employed to an unsaturated slope example for exploring the influences of spatially variable void ratio. Results show that the unsaturated slope failure risk is considerably affected by the spatially variable void ratio, and the single exponential autocorrelation function (ACF) popularized in geotechnical engineering tends to underestimate the failure risk in the unsaturated slope risk assessment.


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    Title :

    Probabilistic Risk Assessment of unsaturated Slope Failure Considering Spatial Variability of Hydraulic Parameters


    Contributors:
    Wang, Lin (author) / Wu, Chongzhi (author) / Li, Yongqin (author) / Liu, Hanlong (author) / Zhang, Wengang (author) / Chen, Xiang (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2019-11-05


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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