Research on the Improvement of Mein-Larson Infiltration Model
CHEN Juncheng1,2,SU Wenji2
(1. Guangxi Traffic Technology Group Co., Ltd,Nanning 530007,China;2. South China University of Technology,Department of Civil Engineering,Guangzhou 510640,China)
The rainfall infiltration model is very important for the evaluation of the stability of rainfall-type landslides. At present,the commonly used rainfall infiltration model is the Mein-Larson infiltration model,but the model assumes that the initial water content of soil is a certain value along the depth direction,in fact,the initial moisture content of soil is non-linear along the depth direction. Considering the actual distribution of soil initial moisture content,an inverse proportion function is proposed to describe the distribution of soil initial moisture content,which improves the Mein-Larson infiltration model,and the improved model is verified by finite element numerical simulation. The results show that there is a certain error between the theoretical solution and the numerical solution of the improved model when the rainfall infiltration is less than 2.5 m, and when the rainfall infiltration is between 2.5 m and 5 m,the theoretical and numerical solutions of the improved model are basically consistent. The results of the improved rainfall infiltration model are closer to the numerical simulation results than those of the Mein-Larson model. The improved rainfall infiltration model is more perfect and reliable, and can be applied to engineering practice.