Modelling of saturated soil slopes equilibrium with an account of the liquid phase bearing capacity

Abstract

Abstract. The paper presents an original method of solving the problem of uniformly distributed load action on a two-phase elastic half-plane with the use of a kinematic model. The kinematic model (Maltsev L.E.) of twophase medium is based on two new hypotheses according to which the stress and strain state of the two-phase body is described by a system of linear elliptic equations. These equations differ from the Lame equations of elasticity theory with two terms in each equation. The terms describe the bearing capacity of the liquid phase or a decrease in stress in the solid phase. The finite element method has been chosen as a solution method.