Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models
PUBLISHED Consequences of the climate change like melting of the permafrost and the increasing number of extreme events like heavy rains are all factors which can increase the probability of occurrence of slope instability. For geotechnical engineers, a deeper understanding of this phenomenom become...
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fttrinitycoll:oai:tara.tcd.ie:2262/103303 2023-08-27T04:11:32+02:00 Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering(ICASP14) ICASP14 2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2262/103303 en eng 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering(ICASP14) Joana-Sophia Levkov, Gil Jacot-Descombes, St?phane Commend, Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models, 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/103303 Y openAccess Conference Paper scholarly_publications refereed_publications 2023 fttrinitycoll 2023-08-03T22:57:06Z PUBLISHED Consequences of the climate change like melting of the permafrost and the increasing number of extreme events like heavy rains are all factors which can increase the probability of occurrence of slope instability. For geotechnical engineers, a deeper understanding of this phenomenom becomes unavoidable. This paper aims to find the difference between two types of probabilistic slope stability analyses under a rainfall event. The first admits a homogeneous soil and takes into account uncertainty of the soil properties. The second takes into account spatial variability of the soil properties. Both analyses are performed using a Monte Carlo framework with the help of a Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE). The PCE is built based on 2D finite element realisations and allows an almost immmediate evaluation of new ones, which is a computing time advantage when performing the Monte Carlo method. A comparison between the probabilities of failure, e.g. the probability of the factor of safety of the slope being smaller than 1, of the two types of analyses is shown. A comparison between the probabilities of failure given different correlations lengths of the spatial variability is also presented. It is shown that the probabilities of failure, when the soil properties are variable in space, are higher than the ones where the soil is homogeneous. Indeed, with soil properties spatially variable, it is also possible to have failure planes that occur at the surface. Conference Object permafrost The University of Dublin, Trinity College: TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive) |
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PUBLISHED Consequences of the climate change like melting of the permafrost and the increasing number of extreme events like heavy rains are all factors which can increase the probability of occurrence of slope instability. For geotechnical engineers, a deeper understanding of this phenomenom becomes unavoidable. This paper aims to find the difference between two types of probabilistic slope stability analyses under a rainfall event. The first admits a homogeneous soil and takes into account uncertainty of the soil properties. The second takes into account spatial variability of the soil properties. Both analyses are performed using a Monte Carlo framework with the help of a Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE). The PCE is built based on 2D finite element realisations and allows an almost immmediate evaluation of new ones, which is a computing time advantage when performing the Monte Carlo method. A comparison between the probabilities of failure, e.g. the probability of the factor of safety of the slope being smaller than 1, of the two types of analyses is shown. A comparison between the probabilities of failure given different correlations lengths of the spatial variability is also presented. It is shown that the probabilities of failure, when the soil properties are variable in space, are higher than the ones where the soil is homogeneous. Indeed, with soil properties spatially variable, it is also possible to have failure planes that occur at the surface. |
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Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models |
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Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models |
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Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models |
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Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models |
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14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering(ICASP14) Joana-Sophia Levkov, Gil Jacot-Descombes, St?phane Commend, Probabilistic finite element analyses of slope stability due to heavy rains: a comparison of homogeneous and spatially variable models, 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/103303 |
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