Evaluating and Mapping the Stability of Slopes in Napa County with a GIS-based Model Dongyuan Wang Ph.D candidate in geotechnical engineering The University of Texas at Austin December 7, 2000
Outline Objective Background Data Preparation SINMAP Model Implementing SINMAP Outputs of SINMAP Discussions Acknowledgement
Objectives Make the evaluation results visualized and accessible to the people. Through this showcase, explore the feasibility of applying GIS in geotechnical engineering; Show how to evaluate and map the stability of slopes with SINMAP, a GIS-based model.
Background Why Napa County? Development require more Lands; Landslide is one of main natural disasters plaguing the people in every country. Why slope stability? Why GIS?
Landslides in USA
Data Preparation(1) DEMs: from USGS website Only part of Napa County SDTS Grid Scale:1:24000 UTM projection Soils: from USDA website SSURGO Useful files: comp,layer, mapunit “Unifiled” field in “layer”
Data Preparation (2) Landslides: from USGS website In geographic coordinates system Convert it to UTM; Landslide Points Add “type” filed to the shapefile
SINMAP An ArcView extension to calculate and map stability index of slopes based upon geographic information, primarily on DEMs. Theoretical Basis Infinite slope model Topographic wetness index, R/T ratio Distribution: Uniform
Implementing SINMAP (1) Model Parameters Gravity constant: 9.81 m/s 2 Soil Density: 2000 kg/m 3 Water Density: 1000 kg/m 3· Number of points in SA Plot: 2000 Calibration Parameters T/R ratio: m Dimensionless cohesion: Angle of internal friction: degrees Lower wetness line percentage: 10%
Select DEM Grid Calibration area Use “comp” file in soil date to create a calibration area; Clip “unifiled” field in “layer” to “comp” manually. Add landslide points; Analyze Stability by adjusting calibration parameters Implementing SINMAP(2)
Outputs (1)
Outputs(2)
Discussions 1.Can we apply GIS in geotechnical engineering ? 2. Does SINMAP work well ? 3. Future work ?
Acknowledgement Dr. Maidment at UT Dr. Tarbonton, Bob Pack and Craig Goodwin at USU