Print Email Facebook Twitter Analysing the effect of rainfall on railway embankments using fragility curves Title Analysing the effect of rainfall on railway embankments using fragility curves Author Reale, C. (TU Delft Geo-engineering) Gavin, Kenneth (TU Delft Geo-engineering; Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions) Martinovic, Karlo (Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions) Date 2018-04-16 Abstract Many railway embankments across Europe were constructed over 150 years ago. These embankments were not subject to rigorous design practice but instead were crudely constructed using end tipping techniques. As a result, the majority of these embankments are overly steep and far in excess of the design angles recommended in Eurocode 7. Over recent years, increased incidence of failure has been witnessed on these slopes following periods of prolonged or intense precipitation. This paper develops fragility curves to investigate how sensitive these steep slopes are to shallow translational failure when subjected to prolonged or abnormally intense rainfall. Rainfall intensity and condition are both considered for a range of slope angles. The significance of the findings are discussed in the context of transport slope asset management and risk assessment. The approach is a logical expansion on probabilistic slope stability analysis and could be used to interpret how vulnerable the transport network is to changing climatic condition. Subject Slope StabilityRainfall-Induced FailureEmbankmentsVulnerabilityProbability of Failure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c65b0767-bf36-485b-8d07-364cf761558e Source Proceedings of the 7th Transportation Research Arena 2018: Vienna, Austria Event Transport Research Arena 2018, 2018-04-16 → 2018-04-19, Vienna, Austria Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 C. Reale, Kenneth Gavin, Karlo Martinovic Files PDF TRA2018_10523_Reale.pdf 874.76 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c65b0767-bf36-485b-8d07-364cf761558e/datastream/OBJ/view