Shiwei Zhao1,*, Hao Chen2, Jidong Zhao1
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09965
Abstract With global warming, thaw-induced landslides occur more frequently in permafrost, which not only
threaten the safety of infrastructures as general geohazards but also worsen global warming due to carbon
release. This work presents a novel computational framework to model thaw-induced landslides from a
multiscale perspective. The proposed approach can capture the thermal-mechanical (TM) response of
frozen soils at the particulate scale by using discrete element method (DEM). The micromechanics-based
TM model is superior to capturing the sudden crash of soil skeletons caused by thaw-induced cementation
loss between soil grains. The DEM-simulated TM response is then More >