Authors: Zaobao Liu Jianfu Shao Weiya Xu Fei Xu
Publish Date: 2013/11/08
Volume: 47, Issue: 6, Pages: 2239-2252
Abstract
This article presents the cloud modelbased approach for comprehensive stability evaluation of complicated rock slopes of hydroelectric stations in mountainous area This approach is based on membership cloud models which can account for randomness and fuzziness in slope stability evaluation The slope stability is affected by various factors and each of which is ranked into five grades The ranking factors are sorted into four categories The ranking system of slope stability is introduced and then the membership cloud models are applied to analyze each ranking factor for generating cloud memberships Afterwards the obtained cloud memberships are synthesized with the factor weights given by experts for comprehensive stability evaluation of rock slopes The proposed approach is used for the stability evaluation of the left abutment slope in Jinping 1 Hydropower Station It is shown that the cloud modelbased strategy can well consider the effects of each ranking factor and therefore is feasible and reliable for comprehensive stability evaluation of rock slopesAuthors thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and the review of the paper The present work is jointly supported by the China Key Basic Research 973 Program no 2011CB013504 and China Natural Science Foundation no 50911130366 Both are gratefully acknowledged We also thank Dr Shaohui Duan in Yalong River Hydropower Development Company Ltd for providing us substantial data of the case slope in this study
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