Probabilistic stability analysis of Bazimen landslide with monitored rainfall data and water level fluctuations in Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Landslide is a common geological hazard in reservoir areas and may cause great damage to local residents’life and property.It is widely accepted that rainfall and periodic variation of water level are the two main factors triggering reservoir landslides.In this study,the Bazimen landslide located in the Three Gorges Reservoir(TGR)was back-analyzed as a case study.Based on the statistical features of the last 3-year monitored data and field instrumentations,the landslide susceptibility in an annual cycle and four representative periods was investigated via the deterministic and probabilistic analysis,respectively.The results indicate that the fluctuation of the reservoir water level plays a pivotal role in inducing slope failures,for the minimum stability coefficient occurs at the rapid decline period of water level.The probabilistic analysis results reveal that the initial sliding surface is the most important area influencing the occurrence of landslide,compared with other parts in the landslide.The seepage calculations from probabilistic analysis imply that rainfall is a relatively inferior factor affecting slope stability.This study aims to provide preliminary guidance on risk management and early warning in the TGR area.

Landslide displacement prediction based on the ICEEMDAN,ApEn and the CNN-LSTM models

Landslide deformation is affected by its geological conditions and many environmental factors.So it has the characteristics of dynamic,nonlinear and unstable,which makes the prediction of landslide displacement difficult.In view of the above problems,this paper proposes a dynamic prediction model of landslide displacement based on the improvement of complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise(ICEEMDAN),approximate entropy(ApEn)and convolution long short-term memory(CNN-LSTM)neural network.Firstly,ICEEMDAN and Ap En are used to decompose the cumulative displacements into trend,periodic and random displacements.Then,the least square quintic polynomial function is used to fit the displacement of trend term,and the CNN-LSTM is used to predict the displacement of periodic term and random term.Finally,the displacement prediction results of trend term,periodic term and random term are superimposed to obtain the cumulative displacement prediction value.The proposed model has been verified in Bazimen landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir area of China.The experimental results show that the model proposed in this paper can more effectively predict the displacement changes of landslides.As compared with long short-term memory(LSTM)neural network,gated recurrent unit(GRU)network model and back propagation(BP)neural network,CNN-LSTM neural network had higher prediction accuracy in predicting the periodic displacement,with the mean absolute percentage error(MAPE)reduced by 3.621%,6.893% and 15.886% respectively,and the root mean square error(RMSE)reduced by 3.834 mm,3.945 mm and 7.422mm respectively.Conclusively,this model not only has high prediction accuracy but also is more stable,which can provide a new insight for practical landslide prevention and control engineering.

Landslide displacement prediction based on optimized empirical mode decomposition and deep bidirectional long short-term memory network

There are two technical challenges in predicting slope deformation.The first one is the random displacement,which could not be decomposed and predicted by numerically resolving the observed accumulated displacement and time series of a landslide.The second one is the dynamic evolution of a landslide,which could not be feasibly simulated simply by traditional prediction models.In this paper,a dynamic model of displacement prediction is introduced for composite landslides based on a combination of empirical mode decomposition with soft screening stop criteria(SSSC-EMD)and deep bidirectional long short-term memory(DBi-LSTM)neural network.In the proposed model,the time series analysis and SSSC-EMD are used to decompose the observed accumulated displacements of a slope into three components,viz.trend displacement,periodic displacement,and random displacement.Then,by analyzing the evolution pattern of a landslide and its key factors triggering landslides,appropriate influencing factors are selected for each displacement component,and DBi-LSTM neural network to carry out multi-datadriven dynamic prediction for each displacement component.An accumulated displacement prediction has been obtained by a summation of each component.For accuracy verification and engineering practicability of the model,field observations from two known landslides in China,the Xintan landslide and the Bazimen landslide were collected for comparison and evaluation.The case study verified that the model proposed in this paper can better characterize the"stepwise"deformation characteristics of a slope.As compared with long short-term memory(LSTM)neural network,support vector machine(SVM),and autoregressive integrated moving average(ARIMA)model,DBi-LSTM neural network has higher accuracy in predicting the periodic displacement of slope deformation,with the mean absolute percentage error reduced by 3.063%,14.913%,and 13.960%respectively,and the root mean square error reduced by 1.951 mm,8.954 mm and 7.790 mm respectively.Conclusively,this model not only has high prediction accuracy but also is more stable,which can provide new insight for practical landslide prevention and control engineering.