Rainfall Reliability Evaluation for Stability of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills on Slope

Fu-Kuo Huang, Grace S. Wang and Yueh-Lin Tsai

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-10

Abstract:

A method to assess the reliability for the stability of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills on slope due to rainfall infiltration is proposed. Parameter studies are first done to explore the influence of factors on the stability of MSW. These factors include rainfall intensity, duration, pattern, and the engineering properties of MSW. Then 100 different combinations of parameters are generated and associated stability analyses of MSW on slope are performed assuming that each parameter is uniform distributed around its reason ranges. In the following, the performance of the stability of MSW is interpreted by the artificial neural network (ANN) trained and verified based on the aforementioned 100 analysis results. The reliability for the stability of MSW landfills on slope is then evaluated and explored for different rainfall parameters by the ANN model with first-order reliability method (FORM) and Monte Carlo simulation (MCS).

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/653282

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