Slope stability analysis under seismic load by vector sum analysis method

AbstractThe vibration characteristics and dynamic responses of rock and soil under seismic load can be estimated with dynamic finite element method (DFEM). Combining with the DFEM, the vector sum analysis method (VSAM) is employed in seismic stability analysis of a slope in this paper. Different from other conventional methods, the VSAM is proposed based on the vector characteristic of force and current stress state of the slope. The dynamic stress state of the slope at any moment under seismic load can be obtained by the DFEM, thus the factor of safety of the slope at any moment during earthquake can be easily obtained with the VSAM in consideration of the DFEM. Then, the global stability of the slope can be estimated on the basis of time-history curve of factor of safety and reliability theory. The VSAM is applied to a homogeneous slope under seismic load. The factor of safety of the slope is 1.30 under gravity only and the dynamic factor of safety under seismic load is 1.21. The calculating results show that the dynamic characteristics and stability state of the slope with input ground motion can be actually analyzed. It is believed that the VSAM is a feasible and practical approach to estimate the dynamic stability of slopes under seismic load

A frequency-domain full waveform inversion method of elastic waves in quantitative defection investigation

857-866Full waveform inversion is a challenging data-fitting procedure based on full wave field modeling to extract quantitative information on elastic properties of subsurface structures. We developed a frequency-domain full-waveform inversion method of elastic waves for stratified media, adopting a quasi-linearization method coupled with a random search algorithm. The inversion process of this method is irrelevant to hypocenter function and can be considered as a kind of combination between the heuristic and non-heuristic inversion methods. To verify our method, we apply it to three numerical two-dimensional models with different intermediate structures (dipping, arched and hollow), and their structures are well revealed. With some pretreatments on response waveforms, such as filtering, normalization and correlation analysis, the full-waveform inversion method is extended to models with damaged area and its feasibility and accuracy verified. Alignment of full waveform inversion method and its cost of computing, several strategies exist to treat this quantitative detecting problem. In Chengdu-Chongqing guest emergency project, the application of full waveform inversion method saves a lot of time. In this method, each section only needs 2 detectors and only need to be hammered twice, while the traditional CT (Computed Tomography) test requires 11 detection filters and at least 11 hammering, and each section has 121 waveform data. In some cases, we can obtain some important priori information through field investigation. The priori information can be used to accelerate the inversion process

BP網絡和遺傳算法在巖石邊坡位移反分析中的應用

Two important aspects in displacement back analysis, calculation efficiency and reliability, are discussed. Firstly the error back-propagation neural network (BP network) is used to substitute the time-consuming finite element analysis, and secondly genetic algorithm is used for the optimization of objective function, making back-analyzed solutions irrelevant to initial values. The feasibility is verified by back analysis of a three-media slope. 探討了計算速度和可靠性這兩個在位移反分析工作中非常重要的問題。一方面用 BP網絡代替有限元計算提高了計算效率 ,另一方面用遺傳算法代替常規的優化算法 ,使反分析結果與初值無關。三介質邊坡算例驗證了上述解決方案的可行性。link_to_subscribed_fulltex