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Stability analysis of soft-hard-interbedded anti-inclined rock slope
Jian-Jun Guo1, Zhen-Wei Wu2, Kai Liu2
1National Engineering Research Center for Inland Waterway Regulation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, China. guofuzhi@126.com.
Abstract:
The instability of rock slope is still a very frequent geological disaster, which seriously affects people's life and production activities. Previous studies have mainly focused on deformation mechanism, prediction, and control of hard rock with single lithology, while there are limited studies on the theoretic computational method of the stability for soft-hard interbedded anti-inclined rock strata. In this study, a geomechanical model for the toppling failure of soft-hard-interbedded anti-inclined rock slope is established. The modes of failure for soft and hard rock strata are analyzed, the computational formula of the downward thrust for each anti-inclined rock stratum is derived, and the stability safety factor of each rock stratum is defined. A theoretical computational method for determining the potentially most dangerous failure surface of soft-hard-interbedded anti-inclined rock slope is proposed. By comparing with the existing research results, the theoretical solving method proposed in this study can well solve the location of the potentially most dangerous failure surface of soft-hard-interbedded anti-inclined rock slope. The potentially most dangerous failure surface of this kind of slope is approximately planar, and the angle between it and the normal plane of the rock strata is an acute angle within 30°. It provides theoretical support for the stability analysis of this kind of slope.
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