Fractal Characteristics of Motion Trace Curve of Landslide Monitoring Points

Autor: E Chuan Yan, Xian Ming Hu, Kun Lv, Tingting Zhang
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Applied Mechanics and Materials. :1285-1290
ISSN: 1662-7482
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.90-93.1285
Popis: According to the analysis of the landslide monitoring data, it is revealed that the amount of the cumulative displacement of the landslide depends on the monitoring cycle. And the trajectory curve of monitoring point has the fractal characteristics. The fractal dimension of the landslide internal points’ movement direction is various with the landslide development, which is decreased from the generation to the deformation and then to the damage. Meanwhile, based on the fractal boxing counting theorem, the program in Matlab is created to calculate the box dimension of the curve. Take a reviving landslide in Three-Gorge as an example, the fractal dimensions of the surface GPS monitoring points’ trajectory curves from 2007 to 2009 are obtained, and the dimension of each point is close to 1. The result indicates that this landslide is in the plastic deformation stage. It is the same with the landslide actual deformation. Therefore, the fractal theory has a great significance in the effective use of the monitoring data, the reorganization of the evolving stage and the prediction of the deformation trend for the landslide.
Databáze: OpenAIRE