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Título: DEVELOPEMENT OF NUMERICAL PROCEDURES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INFILTRATION AND SLOPE STABILITY IN CATCHMENT BASINS
Autor: MARCELO MIQUELETTO
Colaborador(es): EURIPEDES DO AMARAL VARGAS JUNIOR - Orientador
Catalogação: 02/ABR/2008 Língua(s): PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL
Tipo: TEXT Subtipo: THESIS
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Referência(s): [pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11504&idi=1
[en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=11504&idi=2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.11504
Resumo:
The aim of this work is to develop a numerical tool for the analysis of saturated-unsaturated flow in large scale natural slopes, applied to the study of the stability of these areas. The finite element method is applied to solve the Richard`s equation, taking into account the pressure head as the primary variable and using an adequate formulation to minimize the mass conservation issues. The constitutive model used to the characteristic curve and hydraulic constitutive function is the one presented by van Genuchten (1980). A quasi-Newton method (BFGS) is applied for the solution of the non-linearity. A sparse matrix storage scheme, with the objective of reducing the computational memory requirements, is associated to the bi- conjugated gradient method for the solution of the system of equations. An algorithm of finite elements mesh is presented, which generates the 3D mesh from a triangle superficial mesh representing the relief. Numerical analyses are performed in order to validate the code, by comparing the results with those generated by others widely known codes presented in the technical literature. A methodology for the generation of susceptibility maps to shallow translational landslides is delineated, which employs the infinite slope method to the finite elements mesh structure and the flow problem results, considering the effect of the unsaturated state in the material strength.
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