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Reliability parameter back analysis of bedding rock slope with multi-layer slide surfaces

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Bedding slope is one of the most common forms of landslides, and determining the shear strength parameters of the sliding surface is essential for the slope stability analysis and engineering design. Due to the different values of shear strength parameters of different sliding surfaces and the existence of the interlayer shear effect during sliding, it is difficult to determine the shear strength parameters of the bedding slope with the multi-layer sliding surface, especially when the multi-layer sliding mass slides at different speeds at the same time. Therefore, the back analysis method combined with the upper-bound limit analysis method with reliability theory is proposed to back-analyze the shear strength parameters of the multi-layer sliding surface simultaneously. By analyzing three practical landslides in detail, the feasibility and applicability of the proposed method are validated. This method enables one to incorporate the effects of uncertainty and randomness of the parameters, and consider the interlayer shear effect, thus obtaining the most likely shear strength parameter combination and providing a reference for the strength parameter back analysis of bedding slopes based on the reliability theory.

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Funding

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51978666), the Guizhou Provincial Department of Transportation Foundation (No. 2018-123-040), the Guizhou Provincial Science & Technology Department Foundation (No. [2018]2815), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Central South University (No. 2019zzts009), the Key Project of Science and Technology of Department of Transportation of Jiangxi Province (No. 2019C0011).

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410075, Hunan, China

    Shi Zuo, Lianheng Zhao, Liang Li, Dongping Deng & Zhichen Song

  2. Key Laboratory of Heavy-Haul Railway Engineering Structure, Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, 410075, Hunan, China

    Lianheng Zhao

  3. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Rail Transit Engineering Structure, Central South University, Changsha, 410075, Hunan, China

    Lianheng Zhao

  4. Guizhou Province Quality and Safety Traffic Engineering Monitoring and Inspection Center Co., Ltd, GuiyangGuizhou, 550081, China

    Hanhua Tan

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Zuo, S., Zhao, L., Tan, H. et al. Reliability parameter back analysis of bedding rock slope with multi-layer slide surfaces. Bull Eng Geol Environ 80, 7227–7239 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-021-02355-7

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