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A new framework for characterizing landslide deformation: a case study of the Yu-Kai highway landslide in Guizhou, China

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This paper presents a new framework for characterizing landslide deformation. Here, the deformation of a landslide is interpreted as a summation of three components: rigid deformation, within-mass deformation, and residual deformation. On the basis of the monitored data of the landslide deformation, these three components may be characterized separately: the rigid deformation is simulated by a summation of a trend term and a periodic term, the within-mass deformation is simulated by a high-order polynomial model, and the residual deformation is simulated by a conditional random field model. In particular, the characterization of the residual deformation, the third component of the landslide deformation, with the random field allows for a probabilistic assessment of the landslide deformation in the face of geological uncertainties. With the proposed framework, the evolution of landslide deformation in both geometric and time domains may be established, which allows for an assessment of the sliding mechanism of the landslide. Further, evolution in the geometric domain may allow for an assessment of the serviceability of infrastructures in the landslide area. To illustrate this new landslide deformation characterization framework, a case study of the Yu-Kai highway landslide in Guizhou, China is presented, through which the effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated.

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Acknowledgments

The financial support provided by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2017YFC1501304) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41702294) is acknowledged. The authors also wish to thank Mr. Qun Li at the CCCC Second Highway Consultants Co. Ltd. for providing the monitoring data of the deformation of the Yu-Kai highway landslide and Mr. Wenqiang Liu at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) for help collect the general information of the Yu-Kai highway landslide.

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    Huiming Tang, Wenping Gong, Changdong Li & Liangqing Wang

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Chung-Li City, Tao-Yuan, 32011, Taiwan

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Tang, H., Gong, W., Li, C. et al. A new framework for characterizing landslide deformation: a case study of the Yu-Kai highway landslide in Guizhou, China. Bull Eng Geol Environ 78, 4291–4309 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-018-1397-0

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