Liquefaction-induced flow-like landslides: the case of Valarties (Spain)

Author:

Di Carluccio Gaia1ORCID,Pinyol Núria M.2ORCID,Alonso Eduardo E.2ORCID,Hürlimann Marcel2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Centre Internacional de Metodes Numerics en Enginyeria (CIMNE), Barcelona, Spain; also Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.

2. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain; also Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

This paper examines a flowslide involving a glacial deposit of low-plasticity silty sand triggered by a karstic spring after a rainfall period. The work aims at explaining the triggering, propagation and kinematics of flow-like landslides in a unique framework. In particular, a material point method open-source code, able to solve coupled hydro-mechanical problems for saturated/unsaturated soils, was developed. Laboratory and field experiments revealed a liquefaction potential of the mobilised material. To simulate such potential, a recent liquefaction model (Ta-Ger), validated so far at a laboratory scale, was selected, extended to unsaturated conditions, implemented and calibrated. The analysis indicates a complex behaviour of the moving mass and explains the mechanisms developing sequentially in the flowslide. The impact of the upper unstable soil mass against the soil at lower elevations is a key phenomenon to generalise soil liquefaction in the entire slope. Patterns of soil velocity and displacements are far from being a uniform flow of liquefied material. The model developed is a powerful tool to interpret flowslides involving a saturated and unsaturated soil profile. The paper includes sensitivity analyses and discusses the discrepancies observed in the run-up of the flowslide climbing on the opposite slope of the valley.

Publisher

Thomas Telford Ltd.

Subject

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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