非线性破坏准则的边坡稳定性分析毕业外文文献翻译.docVIP

Slope Stability Analysis with Nonlinear Failure Criterion Introduction The determination of the slope stability is a very important issue to geotechnical engineers. Many researchers have attempted to develop and elaborate the methods for slope stability evaluation. The proposed methods in the past for stability analysis may be classified into the following four categories: 1: the limit equilib-rium including the traditional slices method, 2： the characteristic line method, 3： The limit analysis method including upper and lower bound approaches, and 4： the finite element or finite difference numerical techniques. Among them, the slices method has almost dominated the geotechnical profession for estimating the stability of soil and rock slopes. This is due to the fact that the slices method is very simple, cumulated on the use of the method, and the method is the most known and widely accepted by practicing engineers. Until now, a linear MC failure criterion is commonly used in the limit analysis of stability problems. The reason is probably that a linear MC failure criterion can be expressed as circles. This characteristic makes it possible to approximate the circles by a failure surface, which is a linear function of the stresses in the stress space for plane strain problems. Thus, based on the upper and lower bound theorems, formulations of the stability or bearing capacity problems are linear programming problems. However, experiments have shown that the strength envelope of geomaterials has the nature of nonlinearity ?Hoek 1983; Agaret al. 1985; Santarelli 1987!. When applying an upper bound theorem to estimate the influences of a nonlinear failure criterion on bearing capacity or stability, the main problem, which many researchers have encountered, is how to calculate the rate of work done by external forces and the rate of energy dissipation along velocity discontinuities. Suitable methods for solving this problem can be mainly classified into two types. The fi