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Shaking table test study of accumulation layer landslide under earthquake action

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China is located at the intersection of the Pacific Rim and Eurasian seismic belts. The compression and tension between plates have caused the development of fault zones. High frequency, wide distribution, and strong activity have become the main characteristics of China’s seismic activity. A landslide in Yushu area of Qinghai Province, China, is selected as the main research object and engineering example. This research takes softening effect of dynamic load on the strength of rock, soil, and the law of seismic wave propagation in slope as theoretical basis. The actual damage characteristics of slope in the earthquake are the basis as well. The geomechanics theory is used to simplify the geomechanics model, and large-scale shaking table test is used to carry out the study of instability mechanism. Combined with the FLAC3D elastoplastic theory, the following conclusions are mainly drawn: (1) single slip surface under earthquake, the deformation characteristics of accumulation layer landslide are cracks in the middle of slope → development toward the front edge of slope → deformation of the trailing edge of traction → tension cracks; (2) according to calculation of the point safety factor, the sliding process of the 2# landslide, it exhibits the characteristics of pushing slip, and the sliding mechanism of accumulation landslide is not affected during earthquake; and (3) the slip zone soil has an obvious blocking effect on acceleration amplification effect of the landslide body.

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The research has been supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1504903) and "Innovation Star" Project for Outstanding Postgraduates in Gansu Province (2021CXZX-632).

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Gansu, 730000, People’s Republic of China

    Kun Ma, Yongmou Zhang, Zhiyang Ji, Jiankai Ren, Yu Liang & Xinlu Zhou

  2. Northwest Railway Academy Co., Ltd of CREC, 730000, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

    Honggang Wu

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Ma, K., Zhang, Y., Wu, H. et al. Shaking table test study of accumulation layer landslide under earthquake action. Arab J Geosci 15, 161 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-08631-w

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