A Rigorous Variant of the Shear Strength Reduction Method and Its Usage in Slope Stability

0559883 - ÚGN 2023 RIV CH eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Sysala, Stanislav - Hrubešová, Eva - Michalec, Zdeněk - Tschuchnigg, F.
A Rigorous Variant of the Shear Strength Reduction Method and Its Usage in Slope Stability.
Challenges and Innovations in Geomechanics. Vol. 3. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023 - (Barla, M.; Di Donna, A.; Sterpi, D.; Insana, A.), s. 441-448. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 288. ISBN 978-3-031-12850-9. ISSN 2366-2557. E-ISSN 2366-2565.
[International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. Turin (IT), 30.08.2022-02.09.2022]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-11441S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68145535
Klíčová slova: slope stability * shear strength reduction method * Davis approach * convex optimization * finite element method
Obor OECD: Applied mathematics
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-12851-6_52

The shear strength reduction method (SSRM) is a standard method in slope stability enabling to determine the factor of safety and related failure zones. In case of the non-associated Mohr-Coulomb model, the method can oscillate with respect to the refinement of a finite element mesh. To suppress this drawback, the non-associated model is approximated by the associated one such that the strength parameters are reduced by using a function depending on a scalar factor and on the effective friction and dilatancy angles. This modification (MSSRM) can be easily implemented in commercial codes like Plaxis or Comsol Multiphysics. Next, an optimization approach to the modified SSRM (OPT-MSSRM) is introduced. It is shown that the optimization problem is well-defined and can be analyzed by variational principles. For its solution, a regularization method is combined with mesh adaptivity and implemented in Matlab. The SSRM, MSSRM and OPT-MSSRM methods are compared on numerical examples representing a case study of a real heterogeneous slope.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0333011