Abstract
Global climate change has a significant impact on rainfall characteristics, sea water level and groundwater table. Changes in rainfall characteristics may affect stability of slopes and have severe impacts on sustainable urban living. Information on the intensity, frequency and duration of rainfall is often required by geotechnical engineers for performing slope stability analyses. Many seepage analyses are commonly performed using the most extreme rainfall possible which is uneconomical in designing a slope repair or slope failure preventive measure. In this study, the historical rainfall data were analyzed and investigated to understand the characteristics of rainfall in Singapore. The frequency distribution method was used to estimate future rainfall characteristics in Singapore. New intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves for rainfall in Singapore were developed for six different durations (10, 20, 30 min and 1, 2 and 24 h) and six frequencies (2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years). The new IDF curves were used in the seepage and slope stability analyses to determine the variation of factor of safety of residual soil slopes under different rainfall intensities in Singapore.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 15004 |
| Journal | E3S Web of Conferences |
| Volume | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sept 12 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2016 - Paris, France Duration: Sept 12 2016 → Sept 14 2016 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Environmental Science
- General Energy
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
