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An Experimental Investigation on the Progressive Failure of Unsaturated Granular Slopes

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GEOSCIENCES
卷 9, 期 2, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9020063

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unsaturated granular soils; physical slope model; optical fibers strain sensors; progressive failure

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  1. project PRIN 2015 Innovative monitoring and design strategies for sustainable landslide risk mitigation - Italian Ministry of Education, University [201572YTLA]

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Slope failure is a complex process which depends on several factors concerning nature and properties of soil, slope morphology and structure, past stress history, groundwater regime, boundary conditions, and their changes. As a consequence, the mechanism of slope failure is typically characterized by the development of a highly non-uniform strain field, which does not allow an easy prediction of the failure conditions. Usually, the process which will bring the slope to final collapse starts with local soil failure, which then leads to formation and propagation of a shear zone, and finally to general slope failure. This mechanical process is called progressive failure. However, in spite of the progresses in the knowledge of the slope behavior, a complete framework about the progressive failure is still missing; in particular, information about the response of granular unsaturated sloping soils is very poor. This paper reports the results of a couple of small-scale experiments on slopes reconstituted with unsaturated pyroclastic soils and subjected to continuous rainfall. The use of miniaturized sensors and optical fibers provided useful data to read some aspects of the mechanics of failure.

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