Numerical analysis of the precursory information of slope instability process with constant resistance bolt

• Published in: Scientific reports 2021-11, Vol.11 (1), p.21814-21814, Article 21814
• Main Authors: Chen, Feng, Wang, Xue-bin, Du, Yan-hong, Tang, Chun-an
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 639/166; 704/4111; Acoustic emission; Civil engineering; Deformation; Discrete element method; Emergency communications systems; Emergency preparedness; Finite element analysis; Finite volume method; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information processing; Landslides; Landslides & mudslides; Mathematical models; Mechanics; Monitoring methods; multidisciplinary; Numerical analysis; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Shear stress; Simulation; Slope stability; Software
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01387-z

The instability of slope has already threatened life and property safety of the people, and improving the monitoring method of slope stability has important theoretical and practical significance for disaster prevention and reduction. According to the idea of “Newton force sudden drop and catastrophic occurrence” proposed by M.C. He in the landslide monitoring, a numerical model with constant resistance bolt has been established. Through numerical simulation research, it is found that the maximum principal stress, minimum principal stress and shear stress of the intersection point P of landslide surface and constant resistance bolt are sudden growth and sudden decrease, the vertical displacement and lateral displacement of this point P appear rise and fall before three kinds of stress. When loading to the next step of the step where three stress have reduced to a minimum value the slope is unstable and destroyed. At this time, the constant resistance bolt has undergone larger plastic deformation and damaged. Finally, comparing the stress curves and the acoustic emission (AE) curves, it can be seen that stress decreases from the maximum value and the AE curves begin to show a significant rise, the two curves display opposite law. It can be seen from the AE diagram that the failure mode of the slope is a combined tension and shear failure. The numerical test results provide a new idea for real-time monitoring and forecasting of slope.