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Dynamic analysis and numerical modeling of the 2015 catastrophic landslide of the construction waste landfill at Guangming, Shenzhen, China

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Since lots of underground and slope excavation works were conducted during the urbanization process, an increasing number of sites in ravines around a city have been used to stockpile a large amount of excavated soils. This brings a huge challenge for researchers and managers in the risk evaluation and mitigation of potential dangers of these man-made construction waste landfills. This paper describes a recently large landslide of the construction waste landfill, which occurred at a site of Guangming new district in Shenzhen, China, on December 20, 2015. This catastrophic landslide caused the death of 69 persons and 8 persons are still missing. In this paper, this landslide was numerically simulated and analyzed. In spite of neither high-intensity rainfall nor antecedent rainfall, a slope of this landfill with a relative height of 111 m sided and caused about 2.34 million cubic meters of the soils to travel over a gentle terrain more than 1.2 km. This means that the landslide mobility index (H/L = 0.092) is much lower than a general designed value and the values in most other cases. A depth-integrated continuum method and a MacCormack-TVD finite difference algorithm are adopted, in this paper, to numerically simulate the dynamic process of this large landslide. It is found that a Coulomb friction model with consideration of the pore water pressure effects can well reproduce the main characteristics of the dynamic process of this landslide. Sensitivity analysis has demonstrated that the high pore water pressure in the soils plays a significant role in its mobility and is a key factor to the severity of this landslide.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support from NSFC (Grant No. 41572303, 4151001059), CAS “Light of West China,” and Youth Innovation Promotion Association is acknowledged. The work in this paper is supported by a National State Key Project “973” grant (Grant No. 2014CB047001) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China.

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  1. Key laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Surface Process & Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China

    Chaojun Ouyang

  2. Department of Mechanics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Kaiqi Zhou

  3. National Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China

    Qiang Xu, Dalei Peng, Dongpo Wang & Weile Li

  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

    Jianhua Yin

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Ouyang, C., Zhou, K., Xu, Q. et al. Dynamic analysis and numerical modeling of the 2015 catastrophic landslide of the construction waste landfill at Guangming, Shenzhen, China. Landslides 14, 705–718 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-016-0764-9

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