2019 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages I_379-I_388
Due to heavy rain in northern Kyushu in July 2012, failure of the Yabe River levee occurred, caused by local piping in highly permeable foundation ground, and it was a great shock when river engineers and researchers realized that levees can collapse without overflow. Regarding the Koyoshi River levee slope slip and the Kakehashi River levee slope failure that occurred in July 2013, it is also considered that the damage was the result of highly permeable foundation ground. In this paper, to clarify the seepage failure mechanism of river levee with highly permeable foundation ground, numerical simulations of model tests were conducted using a soil-water-air coupled finite deformation analysis code. As a result, the simulation was able to reproduce the difference between the case when the seepage failure occurred and the case when the seepage failure did not occur in the experiment. In addition, using this analysis code, case studies were conducted and the influence of introducing suction effect to elastoplastic constitutive model on seepage failure behavior was also discussed.
