Liquefaction potential of coastal slopes induced by solitary waves |
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| Authors: | Yin L Young Joshua A White Heng Xiao Ronaldo I Borja |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;(2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA |
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| Abstract: | Tsunami runup and drawdown can cause liquefaction failure of coastal fine sand slopes due to the generation of high excess
pore pressure and the reduction of the effective over burden pressure during the drawdown. The region immediately seaward
of the initial shoreline is the most susceptible to tsunami-induced liquefaction failure because the water level drops significantly
below the still water level during the set down phase of the drawdown. The objective of this work is to develop and validate
a numerical model to assess the potential for tsunami-induced liquefaction failure of coastal sandy slopes. The transient
pressure distribution acting on the slope due to wave runup and drawdown is computed by solving for the hybrid Boussinesq—nonlinear
shallow water equations using a finite volume method. The subsurface pore water pressure and deformation fields are solved
simultaneously using a finite element method. Two different soil constitutive models have been examined: a linear elastic
model and a non-associative Mohr–Coulomb model. The numerical methods are validated by comparing the results with analytical
models, and with experimental measurements from a large-scale laboratory study of breaking solitary waves over a planar fine
sand beach. Good comparisons were observed from both the analytical and experimental validation studies. Numerical case studies
are shown for a full-scale simulation of a 10-m solitary wave over a 1:15 and 1:5 sloped fine sand beach. The results show
that the soil near the bed surface, particularly along the seepage face, is at risk to liquefaction failure. The depth of
the seepage face increases and the width of the seepage face decreases with increasing bed slope. The rate of bed surface
loading and unloading due to wave runup and drawdown, respectively, also increases with increasing bed slope. Consequently,
the case with the steeper slope is more susceptible to liquefaction failure due to the higher hydraulic gradient. The analysis
also suggests that the results are strongly influenced by the soil permeability and relative compressibility between the pore
fluid and solid skeleton, and that a coupled solid/fluid formulation is needed for the soil solver. Finally, the results show
the drawdown pore pressure response is strongly influenced by nonlinear material behavior for the full-scale simulation. |
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