Hydro-mechanical modelling of landslides with a material instability criterion

Geotechnique

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 513-524

  Lignon, S ^a   Laouafa, F ^b   Prunier, F ^a   Khoa, H D V ^c   Darve, F ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE SOLS SOLIDES STRUCTURES   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES INERIS   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Failure; Landslides; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; CLASSICAL METHODS; ELASTOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL; FAILURE; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; HYDRO-MECHANICAL; HYDROMECHANICAL COUPLING; IN-PLANE STRAINS; LANDSLIDE MECHANISM; MATERIAL INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL MODELING; PLASTIC LIMIT; SECOND ORDERS; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY CONDITION; STRESS STRAIN STATE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LANDSLIDES; SLOPE PROTECTION;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROMECHANICS; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

ADRIATIC COAST [ITALY]; FRANCE; ITALY;

EID: 77954888001     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 17517656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.7.00121     Document Type: Article

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