Experiment study of mud to the moving process influent about viscous debris flow along slope

Mud is the main component of viscous debris flow. The physical model experiments of viscous debris flow were carried out through the mixing mud with different density and fixed components of coarse particles. The width, longitudinal movement distance and motion velocity were recorded by video cameras during experiment. Through viscous debris flow physical model experiments, the influence of mud to transverse width, longitudinal movement distance and motion velocity was discussed. The physical model experiment results show that the motion forms change from inviscid particle flow to viscous debris flow and to the whole mass sliding with the increase of mud density; the width and the length along the slope decrease with mud density increasing; the movement process has classified phenomena about viscous debris flow composed by different mud densities: the velocity increases rapidly with time and the change gradient is steady when the density of mud is lower than 1.413g/cm(3); the movement process can be divided into two stages when the density of mud is higher than 1.413g/cm(3): the movement velocity is lower and the gradient change is small in the initial stage; but in the second stage, the movement velocity increases quickly, and the gradient is higher than the first stage, and with steady value. (c) 2018 Author(s).