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Assessment of depth-averaged method in analysing runout of submarine landslide

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Depth-averaged method (DAM) is one of the widely used numerical methods to back analyse the post-failure deposits of submarine landslides due to its high efficiency. However, its simplifications of the velocities along the thickness of the slide cannot capture complex behaviours such as shear band propagation. A novel non-averaged method, material point method (MPM), is used to validate the DAM analysis. The runout distances and morphologies of viscous debris flows predicted by the DAM and MPM are compared with those predicted by experiments and computational fluid dynamics analyses. The ranges of the shear strength, viscosity and sensitivity parameters are investigated to determine the feasibility of the DAM. The conventional DAM algorithm specialised for no-slip bases is enhanced to reproduce the phenomenon of block sliding of slides on frictional bases by considering the stability of the front and rear faces. Then, a spreading of horsts and grabens due to shear band propagation is presented with the MPM analysis. Two real cases of submarine landslides, Southern Mediterranean slide and Finneidfjord slide, were back-analysed with the DAM and MPM.

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  • 10 January 2020

    The published version of this article, unfortunately, contained error. Figure 3 of “GPU-hosted workstation for parallel computing” was lost. Then the sequences of the Figures 4-10 were wrong. Given in this article are the correct figures.

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Acknowledgements

Dr Spinewine Benoit from Fugro GeoConsulting and Dr Sam Ingarfield from Fugro AG. are acknowledged for kindly providing the geological information of the submarine landslide in southern Mediterranean and valuable suggestions in its back-analysis.

This work is also supported by NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the GPU Geforce Titan Xp for this research.

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  1. College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, 388 Lumo Road, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Youkou Dong

  2. Shenzhen Research Institute, China University of Geosciences, Shenzhen, 518057, China

    Youkou Dong

  3. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Geological Engineering, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Street, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Dong Wang

  4. State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Lan Cui

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The published version of this article, unfortunately, contained error. Figure 3 of “GPU-hosted workstation for parallel computing” was lost. Then the sequences of the Figures 4-10 were wrong. Given in this article are the correct figures.

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Dong, Y., Wang, D. & Cui, L. Assessment of depth-averaged method in analysing runout of submarine landslide. Landslides 17, 543–555 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01297-2

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