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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL JOURNAL
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CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2022-0696
Keywords
constitutive modelling; machine learning; rainfall; reliability analysis; slope stability; unsaturated soils; vegetated slopes
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This study applies a coupled hydro-mechanical model to analyze the effect of plant roots on soil shear strength. By considering the variability of soil and root properties, the probability of failure for rain-induced root-reinforced slopes is estimated using machine learning algorithms.
Estimating the failure probability of rainfall-induced landslides is often challenging as the triggering mechanism is influ-enced by a number of parameters whose uncertainty is difficult to quantify and, in practice, is neglected. The reinforcing effect of vegetation on natural slopes adds to the complexity of the stability analysis. In this study, we present the application of a coupled hydro-mechanical model for the effect of plant roots on soil shear strength. First, a deterministic approach is adopted. Then, a reliability analysis of a root-reinforced slope subjected to rainfall is performed by considering the inherent variability of the soil and root properties. The probability of failure is estimated with machine learning surrogate models, which ap-proximate the nonlinear relationship between constitutive parameters and slope displacements at different time steps. The machine learning algorithms are trained on a small dataset. The extreme gradient boosting is the best-performing algorithm with R2 >= 0.975 and is then employed to estimate the probability of failure on a larger dataset of one million datapoints with higher accuracy.
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