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Dynamic Response and Dynamic Failure Mode of a Weak Intercalated Rock Slope Using a Shaking Table

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A large-scale shaking table test was performed to study the dynamic response of slopes parallel to geological bedding (bedding slopes) and slopes that cross-cut geological bedding (counter-bedding slopes). The test results show that the acceleration amplification coefficients increase with increasing elevation and, when the input earthquake amplitude is greater than 0.3 g, both bedding and counter-bedding slopes begin to show nonlinear dynamic response characteristics. With increasing elevation, the displacement of the bedding slope surface increases greatly. Conversely, the displacement of the counter-bedding slope surface increases first and then decreases; the slope develops a bulge at the relative elevation of 0.85. The displacement of the bedding slope surface is greater than that of the counter-bedding slope. The counter-bedding slope is more seismically stable compared with the bedding slope. Based on the Hilbert–Huang transform and marginal spectrum theories, the processes that develop dynamic damage of the bedding and counter-bedding slopes are identified. It is shown that the dynamic failure mode of the bedding slope is mainly represented by vertical tensile cracks at the rear of the slope, bedding slide of the strata along the weak intercalation, and rock collapse from the slope crest. However, the dynamic failure mode of the counter-bedding slope is mainly represented by staggered horizontal and vertical fissures, extrusion of the weak intercalation, and breakage at the slope crest.

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This research is financially supported by the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2011CB013605) and the Research Program of the Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China (2013318800020). The authors are grateful to the unnamed reviewers for their valuable comments on the early version of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, First Section 111, Erhuan Road, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China

    Gang Fan, Jianjing Zhang, Jinbiao Wu & Kongming Yan

  2. Key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China

    Gang Fan, Jianjing Zhang, Jinbiao Wu & Kongming Yan

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Fan, G., Zhang, J., Wu, J. et al. Dynamic Response and Dynamic Failure Mode of a Weak Intercalated Rock Slope Using a Shaking Table. Rock Mech Rock Eng 49, 3243–3256 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-016-0971-7

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