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Numerical analysis on seepage failures of dike due to water level-up and rainfall using a water–soil-coupled smoothed particle hydrodynamics model

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For seepage failures of dike due to water level-up and rainfall, surface infiltration and strength change induced by suction reduction are important factors; thus, numerical analysis should consider the coupling of water and soil, as well as the effect of saturation to obtain more precise failure mechanism. Based on the advanced smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, this work proposed a two-phase-coupled SPH model in coordination with a novel constitutive model for unsaturated soils. Then, a triaxial compression test is simulated to check the applicability of the SPH method on the soil phase. After that, the failure test of a dike due to water level-up is discretized and simulated, from which the seepage process, the distribution of maximum shear strain, the slip surface, and pore water pressure are obtained. The two-phase-coupled SPH model is also applied to a slope failure test of heavy rainfall, and the results are compared to the model test. Finally, a dike failure test due to rainfall is analyzed using the proposed SPH model to reproduce the surface infiltration and suction reduction. The proposed SPH model provides several insights of seepage failures and can be a helpful tool for the analysis of dike failures induced by water level-up and rainfall.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for its financial support with Grants-in-Aid-for Scientific Research (B) 26289152. The revision of this work is supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China” No. 2016B01314.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Geomechanics and Embankment Engineering, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, 1 Xikang Road, Nanjing, 210098, China

    Weijie Zhang

  2. Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8555, Japan

    Weijie Zhang, Kenichi Maeda, Hiroshi Saito & Zhaoqing Li

  3. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Road No. 1239, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Yu Huang

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Zhang, W., Maeda, K., Saito, H. et al. Numerical analysis on seepage failures of dike due to water level-up and rainfall using a water–soil-coupled smoothed particle hydrodynamics model. Acta Geotech. 11, 1401–1418 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-016-0488-y

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