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Failure mechanism of the Simiqiao landslide under rainfall and slope cutting

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Rainfall and slope cutting are the most important inducing factors of landslide activities in Southwest China. This paper takes the Simiqiao landslide in Wushan County, Chongqing as an example, obtains the stability and stress–strain field of the landslide under different conditions by field investigation and numerical simulation analysis and further analyzes the influence of rainfall and slope cutting on the stability of the Simiqiao landslide. The conclusions are as follows: the slope cutting has a great influence on the stability of the landslide. For the typical profile, the cutting slope condition under saturated state (coupling condition of rainfall and slope cutting) has the worst stability with a safety factor of 0.886, followed by the cutting slope condition under natural state with a safety factor of 0.939. In this paper, the prevention and control measures for the Simiqiao landslide are also put forward. The research results can provide a reliable reference for disaster prevention and mitigation of similar landslides.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Hai Li, Dan Luo and Peng Jin from 208 Geological Team, Chongqing, for their great assistance in the field investigation data.

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The work is supported by funding from the Open Research Foundation of Hubei Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (China Three Gorges University) (Grant No. 2021KJZ02), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (Grant No. 2020CFB352), a follow-up of the Geological Disaster Prevention and Control Project in the Three Gorges area (Grant No. 000121 2019C C60 001 and Grant No. 000121 2021C C60 001).

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  1. Hubei Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China

    Anle Zhang, Peng Zhang & Bolin Huang

  2. College of Civil Engineering & Architecture, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, 443002, Hubei, China

    Anle Zhang, Peng Zhang & Bolin Huang

  3. Wuhan Centre, China Geological Survey (Central South China Innovation Center for Geosciences), Wuhan, 430205, Hubei, China

    Anle Zhang & Zhenwei Dai

  4. Faculty of Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Chenyang Zhang

  5. School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, China

    Luqi Wang

  6. No. 208 Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology Team of Chongqing Bureau of Geology and Minerals Exploration, Chongqing, 400700, China

    Xiannian Jiang

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Zhang, A., Zhang, P., Dai, Z. et al. Failure mechanism of the Simiqiao landslide under rainfall and slope cutting. Arab J Geosci 15, 1432 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-022-10698-y

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