LAPSE:2023.36185
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LAPSE:2023.36185
Soil Destabilization Induced by Water Wetting Treatments Simulating Rain Infiltration Processes, Studied via Rheology and Granulometry
July 4, 2023
A soil depleted of its organic carbon content is typically destabilized, i.e., its capacity to maintain its microstructure intact under various stress conditions weakens, and consequently, landslides and mudflows can be triggered and propagated more easily. In a previous work, we showed with a rheological analysis that the removal of the sole water-soluble organic carbon “destabilized” the slurry very similarly to what occurs with the removal of the vast majority of soil organic carbon. In principle, the water-soluble organic carbon can be dissolved by rainfall, during which water can infiltrate the soil, eventually leaving it either by percolation or evaporation. These two processes are mimicked here with two different soil water wetting procedures. The stability of the treated (wetted) soils is studied with rheological and granulometric experiments. The former run on concentrated suspensions, while the latter run on very diluted ones. Despite this, the results agreed very well, indicating that the two wetting procedures induce the same destabilization of the soil which behaves as the one depleted by the whole water-soluble organic carbon. Our results concluded that a soil destabilized by a wetting procedure, i.e., by a rainfall event, will be more prone to trigger a landslide that will propagate more swiftly and will stop with more difficulties.
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dissoluble organic carbon, landslide, mudflow, natural hazard, particle size distribution, slurry, soil organic carbon, vane geometry
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Carotenuto C, Minale M. Soil Destabilization Induced by Water Wetting Treatments Simulating Rain Infiltration Processes, Studied via Rheology and Granulometry. (2023). LAPSE:2023.36185
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Carotenuto C: Department of Engineering, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, CE, Italy [ORCID]
Minale M: Department of Engineering, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Real Casa dell’Annunziata, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, CE, Italy [ORCID]
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Processes
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11
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6
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1641
Year
2023
Publication Date
2023-05-27
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2227-9717
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PII: pr11061641, Publication Type: Journal Article
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