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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2014

Frictional velocity-weakening in landslides on Earth and on other planetary bodies

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One of the ultimate goals in landslide hazard assessment is to predict maximum landslide extension and velocity. Despite much work, the physical processes governing energy dissipation during these natural granular flows remain uncertain. Field observations show that large landslides travel over unexpectedly long distances, suggesting low dissipation. Numerical simulations of landslides require a small friction coefficient to reproduce the extension of their deposits. Here, based on analytical and numerical solutions for granular flows constrained by remote-sensing observations, we develop a consistent method to estimate the effective friction coefficient of landslides. This method uses a constant basal friction coefficient that reproduces the first-order landslide properties. We show that friction decreases with increasing volume or, more fundamentally, with increasing sliding velocity. Inspired by frictional weakening mechanisms thought to operate during earthquakes, we propose an empirical velocity-weakening friction law under a unifying phenomenological framework applicable to small and large landslides observed on Earth and beyond.
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hal-01207415 , version 1 (06-06-2017)

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Antoine Lucas, Anne Mangeney, Jean-Paul Ampuero. Frictional velocity-weakening in landslides on Earth and on other planetary bodies. Nature Communications, 2014, 5, pp.3417. ⟨10.1038/ncomms4417⟩. ⟨hal-01207415⟩
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