Abstract:
Montenegro's Bar-Boljare highway traverses across the flysch area. Rainfall concentration, spatial variability and stratified distribution of geotechnical materials have brought challenges to the slope construction. Common design method such as slice method and finite element method cannot fully consider the uncertainty of geotechnical material, the results given with uniqueness and certainty cannot reflect the uncertainty of slope stability. Taking a slope of the project as an example, the finite element limit analysis method (FELA) is used to obtain the distribution interval of safety factors considering the spatial variability of the strength of geomaterials and the upper and lower bound limit theorem. Based on the investigation data, the mean value, standard deviation and spatial correlation length of materials were obtained and the two-dimensional random field was reconstructed to describe the shear strength index. Meanwhile, the joint distribution of the excavated rock strata was taken into account to analyze the stabilities and failure modes of each construction step of the slope during the graded excavation. Compared with the results of finite element analysis, the safety factor in part of the excavation stage is lower than the limit value in random field, and there are two forms of failure, namely local failure and overall failure. Combined with the unsaturated soil theory, the infiltration depth of rain water under the condition of heavy rain is simulated and the intensity parameters after reduction are used to recalculate in the saturated area. Through Monte Carlo simulation, the probability density distribution function of safety factor, volume of sliding body, bending moment of retaining wall and internal force of anchor is obtained. Due to the constraint of retaining wall structure on soil deformation, the failure mode tends to be overall failure, and the distribution range of safety coefficient becomes smaller. The bolt can drive more soil into the working state, which also restricts the distribution range of safety coefficient. The failure area of slope in dry season is different from that in rainy season. Under the same supporting conditions, the distribution range of safety coefficient of slope in rainy season is larger, and the mean value is obviously reduced.