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Influence analysis of irregular bedrock surface on failure characteristics of bedrock and overburden layer slope by material point method

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Overburden landslide is a common natural disaster worldwide. Many scholars study the stability of the overburden layer based on a linear, fold-line, or circular bedrock surface. They rarely systematically analyze the influence of irregular bedrock surfaces on instability characteristics of the overburden layer, because quantitatively characterizing an irregular bedrock surface is still problematic. This paper proposes a new method of random reconstruction of a bedrock surface based on the inverse discrete Fourier transform. And combined with the material point method (MPM), the whole process of slope instability is simulated and analyzed. Then the influence of the irregular bedrock surfaces on the instability characteristics of overburden landslides is studied quantitatively. The results indicate that the bedrock surface has a significant influence on instability characteristics of overburden landslide. The effect of bedrock surfaces represented by Fourier descriptor D1 shows duality, and that controlled by D2 can promote the stability of the overburden layer, and that reconstructed by D3 shows diversity. Furthermore, the influence laws of irregular bedrock surfaces on the instability characteristics of overburden landslides are proposed.

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Funding

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51878668 and 51978666), Science and Technology Project of Guizhou Provincial Department of Transportation (No. 2018-123-040), Key Projects of Science and Technology Support Plan of Guizhou Provincial Department of Science and Technology (No. [2018]2815), and the Key Project of Science and Technology of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Transportation (No. 2019C0011). All financial supports were greatly appreciated.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410075, China

    Nan Qiao, Lian-Heng Zhao & Dong-Liang Huang

  2. Key Laboratory of Heavy-Haul Railway Engineering Structure, Ministry of Education, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410075, China

    Lian-Heng Zhao

  3. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Rail Transit Engineering Structures, Central South University, Yukai Road, Changsha, Hunan, 410075, China

    Lian-Heng Zhao

  4. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Yukai Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Xiang Wang

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Qiao, N., Zhao, LH., Wang, X. et al. Influence analysis of irregular bedrock surface on failure characteristics of bedrock and overburden layer slope by material point method. Arab J Geosci 14, 2002 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-021-08363-x

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