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Impacts of unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater table on slope instability / Ram L. Ray in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Vol. 136 N° 10 (Octobre 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 136 N° 10 (Octobre 2010) . - pp. 1448-1458 Titre : Impacts of unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater table on slope instability Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ram L. Ray, Auteur ; Jacobs, Jennifer M., Auteur ; Pedro de Alba, Auteur Année de publication : 2010 Article en page(s) : pp. 1448-1458 Note générale : Géotechnique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Landslides  Soil  moisture  Slope  stability  Unsaturated  soils  Safety  Water  table  Susceptibility  Factor  of  safety Index. décimale : 624.1 Infrastructures.Ouvrages en terre. Fondations. Tunnels Résumé : The combined effect of soil moisture in unsaturated soil layers and pore-water pressure in saturated soil layers is critical to predict landslides. An improved infinite slope stability model, that directly includes unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater, is derived and used to analyze the factor of safety's sensitivity to unsaturated zone soil moisture. This sensitivity, the change in the factor of safety with respect to variable unsaturated zone soil moisture, was studied at local and regional scales using an active landslide region as a case study. Factors of safety have the greatest sensitivity to unsaturated zone soil moisture dynamics for shallow soil layers (<2 m) and comparatively deep groundwater tables (1 m). For an identical groundwater table, the factor of safety for a 1 m thick soil mantle was four times more sensitive to soil moisture changes than a 3-m thick soil. At a regional scale, the number of unstable areas increases nonlinearly with increasing unsaturated zone soil moisture and with moderately wet slopes exhibiting the greatest sensitivity. DEWEY : 624.1 ISSN : 1090-0241 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=JGGEFK&ONLINE=YES&s [...] [article] Impacts of unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater table on slope instability [texte imprimé] / Ram L. Ray, Auteur ; Jacobs, Jennifer M., Auteur ; Pedro de Alba, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp. 1448-1458. Géotechnique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 136 N° 10 (Octobre 2010) . - pp. 1448-1458 Mots-clés : Landslides  Soil  moisture  Slope  stability  Unsaturated  soils  Safety  Water  table  Susceptibility  Factor  of  safety Index. décimale : 624.1 Infrastructures.Ouvrages en terre. Fondations. Tunnels Résumé : The combined effect of soil moisture in unsaturated soil layers and pore-water pressure in saturated soil layers is critical to predict landslides. An improved infinite slope stability model, that directly includes unsaturated zone soil moisture and groundwater, is derived and used to analyze the factor of safety's sensitivity to unsaturated zone soil moisture. This sensitivity, the change in the factor of safety with respect to variable unsaturated zone soil moisture, was studied at local and regional scales using an active landslide region as a case study. Factors of safety have the greatest sensitivity to unsaturated zone soil moisture dynamics for shallow soil layers (<2 m) and comparatively deep groundwater tables (1 m). For an identical groundwater table, the factor of safety for a 1 m thick soil mantle was four times more sensitive to soil moisture changes than a 3-m thick soil. At a regional scale, the number of unstable areas increases nonlinearly with increasing unsaturated zone soil moisture and with moderately wet slopes exhibiting the greatest sensitivity. DEWEY : 624.1 ISSN : 1090-0241 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=JGGEFK&ONLINE=YES&s [...]