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Interaction between seepage field and soil stress field influences soil effective stress in general consideration. In addition, water erosion in soil skeleton can also affect soil effective stress. The current studies conducted triaxial compression experiments with seepage, Duncan-Chang model analysis, ABAQUS numerical simulation and followed by a case study analysis. Experiments show that the water erosion in soil skeleton reduces effective stress strength of soil, which is quantitatively described by the reduction of equivalent confining pressure. Through analyzing the characteristics of soil stress-strain curves, the equivalent confining pressure is applied to improve Duncan-Chang model. Using the modified Duncan-Chang model as well as considering the interaction between seepage field and soil stress field, ABAQUS software package is employed to simulate triaxial compression experiments with seepage. This method is validated by comparing simulation and experimental results. Furthermore, this method is applied in the case study of the overall stability of bank slope under seepage effect and finds that the modified model is more conservative on safety assessment of slope stability. The studies provided evidences to prove the importance of considering soil skeleton eroded by water flow in slope stability analysis quantitatively and proposed a modified Duncan-Chang model for engineering application with consideration of seepage effect.
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Wang, Y., Liu, X., Zhang, Z. et al. Analysis on slope stability considering seepage effect on effective stress. KSCE J Civ Eng 20, 2235–2242 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-015-0646-z
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