Experimental study on formation mechanism of bedding rock landslide
The main focus and challenge of landslide research is always the formation mechanism of bedding rock landslides.An ideal generalized model was created to investigate the progression and instability mechanism of bedding rock landslides.In addition to using the digital image correlation(DIC)approach,a freezing experiment was conducted for non-contact and real-time deformation observation throughout the experiment for the entire process of a bedding rock landslide.A method was proposed to finely describe the relative displacement evolution of the opening section of side slope rear edge and the shear slide section of the bedding rock landslide,based on the full-field deformation data derived by DIC.The findings indicate that there are four stages in the instability process that the bedding rock landslide goes through:early deformation,rear edge opening,shear sliding and overall instability.Prior to reaching the rear edge of the possible sliding zone,the strain localization band is initially produced at the shallow area of the rear edge opening section and subsequently proceeds to the deeper part.Following that,they keep going in the direction of the sliding zone's front edge,finally passing through it and reaching the failure of overall instability.These occurrences demonstrate the characteristics of progression from shallow to deep,from the rear edge to the front edge and from local to global.Furthermore,the impact of the sliding zone dip angle on the instability of bedding rock side slope was investigated,and it was found that an increase in the sliding zone dip angle shortens the instability time.The research methodology based on DIC monitoring provides a new way to revealing the progression mechanism of bedding rock landslides through quantitative means.