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Numerical modelling of seismic slope stability
Bourdeau, Céline; Havenith, Hans-Balder; Fleurisson, J. A. et al.
2004In Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 104, p. 671-684
 

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Keywords :
Numerical Modelling; landslides; seismic effects
Abstract :
[en] Earthquake ground-motions recorded worldwide have shown that many morphological and geological structures (topography, sedimentary basin) are prone to amplify the seismic shaking (San Fernando, 1971 [Davis and West 1973] Irpinia, 1980 [Del Pezzo et al. 1983]). This phenomenon, called site effects, was again recently observed in El Salvador when, on the 13th of January 2001, the country was struck by a M=7.6 earthquake. Indeed, while horizontal accelerations on a rock site at Berlin, 80 km from the epicentre, did not exceed 0.23 g, they reached 0.6 g at Armenia, 110 km from the epicentre. Armenia is located on a small hill underlaid by a few meters thick pyroclastic deposits. Both the local topography and the presence of surface layers are likely to have caused the observed amplification effects, which are supposed to have contributed to the triggering of some of the hundreds of landslides related to this seismic event (Murphy et al. 2002). In order to better characterize the way site effects may influence the triggering of landslides along slopes, 2D numerical elastic and elasto-plastic models were developed. Various geometrical, geological and seismic conditions were analysed and the dynamic behaviour of the slope under these conditions was studied in terms of creation and location of a sliding surface. Preliminary results suggest that the size of modelled slope failures is dependent on site effects.
Disciplines :
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Bourdeau, Céline ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Géologie de l'environnement
Havenith, Hans-Balder  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Géologie de l'environnement
Fleurisson, J. A.
Grandjean, Gilles
Language :
English
Title :
Numerical modelling of seismic slope stability
Publication date :
2004
Journal title :
Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
ISSN :
0930-0317
eISSN :
1613-2580
Publisher :
Springer, Germany
Volume :
104
Pages :
671-684
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