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Hydraulic characterization of an unsaturated vegetated soil: The role of plant roots and hydraulic hysteresis

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DOI: 10.1016/j.gete.2021.100235

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Unsaturated soil; Hydraulic soil characterization; Pyroclastic soil; Hydraulic hysteresis; Rooted soil

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  1. European Commission via the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN-ETN) project TERRE ? [H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675762]

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Flowslides and debris flows in granular soils are dangerous and can be triggered by rainfall. Accurate groundwater analysis is important for early warning systems to mitigate landslide risk. This paper presents a laboratory investigation on the hydraulic behavior of pyroclastic unsaturated deposits, highlighting the significance of hydraulic hysteresis and the presence of roots in shallow soils.
Flowslides and debris flows in granular soils pose a serious threat to human life and man-made structures. Due to rainwater infiltrating into superficial unsaturated soils, rainfall is the most common triggering factor of such landslides, causing a decrease in matric suction and hence in soil shear strength. Early warning systems based on accurate analyses of groundwater response to meteorological factors are widely used to mitigate landslide risk. In such a context, the accuracy of the model adopted to calculate the groundwater field is closely related to the reliability and meaningfulness of hydraulic soil characterization. In this paper, an extensive laboratory investigation regarding the hydraulic behaviour of pyroclastic unsaturated deposits from a vegetated slope monitored on Mount Faito (Campania, Southern Italy) is presented to highlight the importance of hydraulic hysteresis and the presence of roots in shallow soils. Water retention properties and hydraulic conductivity functions were determined, focusing on a drying-wetting cycle. Tests on specimens sampled in the top ten centimetres of the soil profile were also carried out to assess the effects of plant roots on soil hydraulic properties. Inverse analyses were used to estimate the parameters of a hysteretic hydraulic model. Finally, parametric numerical analyses, carried out via a finite element code, were used to highlight the potential effects of the hydraulic characterization on the stability of sloping pyroclastic covers, including all above factors.(C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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