Top

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Published in:

01-08-2022 | Original Paper

Early warning model and model test verification of rainfall-induced shallow landslide

Authors: Qinghua Zhan, Shimei Wang, Fei Guo, Yong Chen, Li Wang, Daipeng Zhao

Published in: Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment | Issue 8/2022

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config

AI-assisted search

Off

Abstract

An early warning system can effectively reduce the damage caused by landslides. To study the change law of hydrological indexes with the evolution process, a rainfall-induced landslide model test was carried out. The changes of volumetric moisture content, matrix suction, and pore water pressure with time were obtained. It was shown that the volumetric moisture content maintained the maximum value before failure, and the pore water pressure increased; at the same time, the failure was accompanied by a sudden change of volumetric moisture content. Pore water pressure and volumetric moisture content are usually used as indicators for landslide early warnings. In many cases, a slope stability model based on pore water pressure is better than that based on volumetric moisture content. However, heavy rainfall sometimes causes failure after a small amount of positive pore water pressure forms. It is difficult to explain this instability using a traditional slope stability model; therefore, we established a model that focused on volumetric moisture content and its variation over time and early warning thresholds for two landslides with different permeabilities. The early warning model proposed in this study can be applied reliably for landslides not triggered by positive pore water pressure and provide early warning for slope instabilities triggered in saturated conditions or with low pore water pressure.

previous article Mechanical behavior of sands reinforced with shredded face masks

next article Study on mechanical properties and energy characteristics of carbonaceous shale with different fissure angles under dry–wet cycles

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Abramento M, Carvalho CS (1989) Geotechnical parameters for the study of natural slope instabilization at Serra do Mar, Brazil, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Siol Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Rio de Janeiro.

Bordoni M, Meisina C, Valentino R et al (2015) Hydrological factors affecting rainfall-induced shallow landslides: from the field monitoring to a simplified slope stability analysis. Eng Geol 193:19–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2015.04.006CrossRef

Cuomo S, Della Sala M (2013) Rainfall-induced infiltration, runoff and failure in steep unsaturated shallow soil deposits. Eng Geol 162:118-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2013.05.010

Dikshit A, Sarkar R, Pradhan B, Segoni S, Alamri AM (2020) Rainfall induced landslide studies in Indian Himalayan region: a critical review. Appl Sci 10(7)2466. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10072466

Gardner WR (1958) Some steady-state solutions of the unsaturated moisture flow equation with application to evaporation from a water table. Soil Sci 85(4):228–232CrossRef

Godt JW, Baum RL, Savage WZ et al (2008) Transient deterministic shallow landslide modeling: requirements for susceptibility and hazard assessments in a GIS framework. Eng Geol 102(3–4):214–226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2008.03.019CrossRef

Godt J W, Baum R L, Lu N (2009) Landsliding in partially saturated materials. Geophysical research letters 36(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035996

Grelle G, Soriano M, Revellino P, Guerriero L, Anderson MG, Diambra A, Fiorillo F, Esposito L, Diodato N, Guadagno FM (2014) Space-time prediction of rainfall-induced shallow landslides through a combined probabilistic/deterministic approach, optimized for initial water table conditions. Bull Eng Geol Env 73(3): 877-890. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-013-0546-8

Harris S J, Orense R P, Itoh K (2012) Back analyses of rainfall-induced slope failure in Northland Allochthon formation. Landslides 9(3): 349–356.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-011-0309-1

Iverson RM (2000) Landslide triggering by rain infiltration. Water Resour Res 36(7):1897–1910. https://doi.org/10.1029/2000WR900090CrossRef

Jia G,Tang Q, Xu X (2020) Evaluating the performances of satellite-based rainfall data for global rainfall-induced landslide warnings. Landslides 17(2):283-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-019-01277-6

Lu N, Godt J (2008) Infinite slope stability under steady unsaturated seepage conditions. Water Resources Research 44(11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2008WR006976

Lu N, Kaya M, Collins BD et al (2013) Hysteresis of unsaturated hydromechanical properties of a silty soil. J Geotech Geoenviron Eng 139(3):507-510. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0000786

Lee ML, Ng KY, Huang YF et al (2014) Rainfall-induced landslides in Hulu Kelang area. Malaysia Natural Hazards 70(1):353–375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-0814-8CrossRef

Lee WY, Park SK, Sung HH (2021) The optimal rainfall thresholds and probabilistic rainfall conditions for a landslide early warning system for Chuncheon. Republic of Korea Landslides 18(5):1721–1739. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01603-3CrossRef

Mualem Y (1976) A new model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media. Water Resour Res 12(3):513–522. https://doi.org/10.1029/WR012i003p00513CrossRef

Montrasio L, Valentino R (2008) A model for triggering mechanisms of shallow landslides. Nat Hazard 8(5):1149–1159. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-8-1149-2008CrossRef

Piciullo L, Gariano SL, Melillo M, Brunetti MT, Peruccacci S, Guzzetti F, Calvello M (2017) Definition and performance of a threshold-based regional early warning model for rainfall-induced landslides. Landslides 14(3):995-1008. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-016-0750-2

Pradhan AMS, Kang HS, Lee JS et al (2019) An ensemble landslide hazard model incorporating rainfall threshold for Mt. Umyeon, South Korea. Bull Eng Geol Environ 78(1): 131–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-017-1055-y

Pecoraro G, Calvello M (2021) Integrating local pore water pressure monitoring in territorial early warning systems for weather-induced landslides. Landslides 18(4):1191-1207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01599-w

Roccati A, Paliaga G, Luino F, Faccini F, Turconi L (2020) Rainfall threshold for shallow landslides initiation and analysis of long-term rainfall trends in a Mediterranean area. Atmosphere 11(12):1367. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121367

Rosi A, Segoni S, Canavesi V, Monni A, Gallucci A, Casagli N (2021) Definition of 3D rainfall thresholds to increase operative landslide early warning system performances. Landslides 18(3)1045-1057. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-020-01523-2

Springman SM, Thielen A, Kienzler P, Friedel S (2013) A long-term field study for the investigation of rainfall-induced landslides. Geotechnique 63(14):1177-1193. https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.11.P.142

Sun P, Wang G, Wu LZ et al (2019) Physical model experiments for shallow failure in rainfall-triggered loess slope, Northwest China. Bull Eng Geol Env 78(6):4363–4382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-018-1420-5CrossRef

Tiranti D, Rabuffetti D (2010) Estimation of rainfall thresholds triggering shallow landslides for an operational warning system implementation. Landslides 7(4):471- 481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-010-0198-8

Van Genuchten MT (1980) A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 44(5):892–898CrossRef

Wolle, C. M., Hachich, W (1989) Rain-induced landslides in southeastern Brazil, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Siol Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Rio de Janeiro 1639–1644.

Wu LZ, Huang RQ, Xu Q, Zhang LM, Li HL (2015) Analysis of physical testing of rainfall-induced soil slope failures. Environ Earth Sci 73(12):8519-8531. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-014-4009-8

Wu LZ, Zhou Y, Sun P et al (2017) Laboratory characterization of rainfall-induced loess slope failure. CATENA 150:1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.11.002CrossRef

Wang W, Li J, Qu X, Han Z, Liu P (2019) Prediction on landslide displacement using a new combination model: a case study of Qinglong landslide in China. Nat Hazards 96(3):1121-1139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03595-3

Yang B, Yin K, Lacasse S, Liu Z (2019) Time series analysis and long short-term memory neural network to predict landslide displacement. Landslides 16(4):677-694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-010-0220-1

Zhang Z, Wang W, Yeh TC, Chen L, Wang Z, Duan L, An K, Gong C (2016) Finite analytic method based on mixed-form Richards’ equation for simulating water flow in vadose zone. J Hydrol 537:146-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.035

Zhang S, Zhang X, Pei X et al (2019) Model test study on the hydrological mechanisms and early warning thresholds for loess fill slope failure induced by rainfall. Eng Geol 258:105135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.05.012CrossRef

Zhu SR, Wu LZ, Huang J (2022a) Application of an improved P (m)-SOR iteration method for flow in partially saturated soils. Comput Geosci 26(1):131–145CrossRef

Zhu S R, Wu L Z, Song X L (2022b) An improved matrix split-iteration method for analyzing underground water flow. Engineering with Computers. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-021-01551-z

Title: Early warning model and model test verification of rainfall-induced shallow landslide
Authors: Qinghua Zhan
Shimei Wang
Fei Guo
Yong Chen
Li Wang
Daipeng Zhao
Publication date: 01-08-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment / Issue 8/2022
Print ISSN: 1435-9529
Electronic ISSN: 1435-9537
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-022-02827-4

Springer Professional

Abstract

Please log in to get access to your license.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Other articles of this Issue 8/2022

Effect of freeze–thaw cycles on the dynamic parameters of modified Na+-bentonite by different cations

Stabilization of Amol fat clay using seashell ash

Engineering behavior of soft rock tunnels in mountainous areas under multiple hazard inducers: a case study of the Jiuzhaigou-Mianyang Expressway

Ground fissure susceptibility mapping based on factor optimization and support vector machines

New approach for assessing uniaxial compressive strength of rocks using measurement from nanoindentation experiments

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based photogrammetry and InSAR for mining subsidence and parameters inversion: a case study of the Wangjiata Mine, China