An Experimental Study on the Mechanical Properties of Soils of the Landslide Induced by Rainfall

Abstract

Geotechnical tests are performed to study the strain-stress behavior and mechanical parameters by using the automatic KTG triaxial shear apparatus. This study shows that the strain softening phenomenon emerges after the peak values of strain-stress relations appear for the sliding-body soils, and that the strain-stress relations are in the sate of strain hardening all the time for the sliding-zone soils although the water content keeps sameness. The variation laws of cohesion and internal friction angle with water content are respectively consistent with an exponential function and linear relation.