Guodong Liu^1,2,*, Zhijun Zhou¹, Shiqiang Xu¹, Wenjing Mi²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.2, pp. 351-375, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020335

Abstract Water level variations have caused numerous dam slope collapse disasters around the world, illustrating the large influence of water level fluctuations on dam slopes. The required indoor tests were conducted and a numerical model of an actual earth-filled dam was constructed to investigate the influences of the water level fluctuation rate and the hysteresis of the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) on the stability of the upstream dam slope. The results revealed that the free surface in the dam body for the desorption SWCC during water level fluctuations was higher than that for the adsorption SWCC, which would be more evident… More >

Shuai Zheng, An-Nan Jiang^*, Kai-Shuai Feng

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.129, No.1, pp. 149-166, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2021.016761

Abstract The randomness of rock joint development is an important factor in the uncertainty of geotechnical engineering stability. In this study, a method is proposed to evaluate the reliability of intermittent jointed rock slope. The least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) evolved by a bacterial foraging optimization algorithm (BFOA) is used to establish a response surface model to express the mapping relationship between the intermittent joint parameters and the slope safety factor. The training samples are obtained from the numerical calculation based on the joint finite element method during this process. Considering the randomness of the intermittent joint parameters in the… More >