Rock slope response to strong earthquake shaking

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• 作者：C. Massey ; F. Della Pasqua ; C. Holden ; A. Kaiser ; L. Richards ; J. Wartman…
• 关键词：Canterbury earthquakes ; Co ; seismic landslides ; Port Hills ; Rock slope response ; Slope stability ; Site effects
• 刊名：Landslides
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 页码：249-268
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• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Natural Hazards; Geography, general; Agriculture; Civil Engineering;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1612-5118
• 卷排序：14

文摘

The 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes triggered many mass movements in the Port Hills including rockfalls, debris avalanches, slides and slumps, and associated cliff-top cracking. The most abundant mass movements with the highest risk to people and buildings were rockfalls and debris avalanches sourced from up to 100 m high cliffs inclined at angles >65°. Cliffs lower than 10 m in height generally remained stable during the strong shaking, with only isolated release of a few individual boulders. We used site-specific data to investigate the factors that controlled the response of the cliffs to the main earthquakes of the Canterbury sequence, adopting two-dimensional finite element seismic site response and stability modeling that was calibrated using the field observations and measurements. Observations from the assessed cliffs in response to the earthquakes show the taller cliffs experienced larger amounts of permanent cliff-top displacement and produced larger volumes of debris than the smaller cliffs. Results indicated a mean K_MAX amplification ratio for all sites under study of 1.6 (range of 1.1–3.8). Field data and numerical modeling results, however, show that amplification of shaking does not necessarily increase linearly with increasing cliff height. Instead, our results show that accelerations are amplified mainly due to the impedance contrasts between the geological materials, corresponding to where strong differences in rock mass shear wave velocity exist. The resulting acceleration contrasts and rock mass strength control cliff stability. However, the amount of permanent slope displacement and volume of debris leaving the cliffs varied between the sites, due to site-specific geometry and rock mass strength.