Study on Particle-Size Process on Internal Erosion of Grap-Graded
Soil--Rock Mixtures of Different Fine Contents
Abstract
Soil–rock mixtures are widely encountered in geotechnical engineering
projects. The instability and failure mechanism of grap-graded
soil–rock mixtures under rainfall conditions has always been the focus
of geological disaster research. To deeply explore the mechanism of
seepage deformation of soil–rock mixtures, an indoor physical
permeability test that considers soil–rock mixtures with different fine
contents was conducted, and a particle-scale numerical simulation test
of the permeability evolution was carried out using the coupling model
of PFC3D and ABAQUS. The test results showed that the spatial
distribution of fine particle loss along the height direction could be
divided into three areas: top loss, middle uniform, and bottom loss
area. The “island” effect of coarse particles, which is caused by
excessive fine content and makes the fine particles bear more load, was
eliminated with the loss of fine particles. In this preset working
condition of coarse and fine particle diameters, setting FC to 35% may
be the best way to fill the voids between the coarse particles. Particle
migration leads to a change in the load-bearing skeleton structure,
thereby causing seepage deformation. Therefore, the particle-scale
numerical test method can better reproduce the seepage deformation
process of grap-graded soil–rock mixtures.