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Ritika, PG student, Dept. of Civil Engg., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. email: ritika.sangroya@gmail.com
Kaustav Chatterjee, PG student, Dept. of Civil Engg., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. email: kaustav87@gmail.com
Deepankar Choudhury, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engg., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. email: dc@civil.iitb.ac.in
ABSTRACT: In this paper, the necessity of counting blast load in seismic slope stability analysis is revealed. Typical soil
slope with embedded pipeline subjected to seismic and blast loads are modelled using finite difference based geotechnical
software FLAC2D. Results are shown in the form of vertical displacements along the face of slope and parametric variations for
types of soil, inclination of slope and location of pipeline are obtained. It is found that in clays, blast load must be considered
in the seismic slope stability analysis, whereas for sand, it is not essential. In clays gentle slope with pipeline close to the slope
face can be used, but in sands, pipeline must be away from slope face.
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seismic load and blast load. For seismic analysis, pseudo-
static approach was used and the model was subjected to
horizontal seismic acceleration coefficient (kh) of 0.1g and
vertical seismic acceleration coefficient (kv) of 0.0kh.
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Effect of blast load on seismic slope stability using FLAC
Table 3 shows the vertical displacement of slope in dense slope angles, it is showing almost same displacement. It
sand for both seismic and blast loads. Fig. 4 depicts the indicates as slope is becoming steeper, displacement is
variation of vertical displacement due to seismic and blast increasing but location of pipeline is not the matter of
loadings with the distance of pipeline from the face of slope concern. So for all slopes in soft clay, location of pipeline
for various inclinations in case of dense sand and it is near to the slope face can be used.
observed that with an increase in slope angle, displacements
due to seismic and blast loadings are increasing and are Table 4 Vertical displacement (m) along slope face of soft
vertically downwards. However as the location of pipeline is clay at the pipeline position 2m, 3m, and 4m from the face of
moving inwards, displacement is gradually reducing for both slope. kh=0.1g, kv=0.0kh
the cases. Displacements due to seismic loading is more than Slope Load Vertical displacement (m) for
due to blast, so no further analysis for blasting is required for Angle type location of pipeline from face (d)
dense sands. 2m 3m 4m
30 Seismic 0.03 0.03 0.03
Table 3 Vertical displacement (m) along slope face of dense
sand at the pipeline position 2m, 3m, and 4m from the face of Blast 0.03 0.20 0.20
slope. kh=0.1g, kv=0.0kh Seismic -0.04 -0.05 -0.025
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Slope Load Vertical displacement (m) for Blast 0.23 0.23 0.24
Angle type location of pipeline from face (d) Seismic -0.05 -0.10 -0.40
2m 3m 4m 40
Blast 0.25 0.25 0.25
30 Seismic -12.0 -9.0 -0.15
Blast -0.1 -0.1 -0.10
Seismic -40.0 -22.5 -15.0
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Blast -20.0 -4.0 0.10
Seismic -40.0 -35.0 -30.0
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Blast -30.0 -15.0 -12.5
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SR/FTP/ETA-41/2008, from which the above technical study
has been carried out.
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