Abstract: The pseudo-dynamic method can better consider the spatial and temporal variation characteristics of earthquake propagation. In this paper, the pseudo-dynamic analysis method is used to study the three-dimensional seismic stability of reinforced soil slopes under two different reinforcement modes of uniform reinforcement and triangular reinforcement. Based on the upper limit theorem of limit analysis, the failure mechanism of three-dimensional reinforced soil slope is constructed, the expression of three-dimensional safety factor of seismic slope is derived, and the difference between pseudo-static and pseudo-dynamic analysis results is investigated. The variation law of pseudo-dynamic safety factor of three-dimensional reinforced soil slope is revealed by parameter analysis. The results show that the safety factor solution obtained by pseudo-static analysis is more conservative than that obtained by pseudo-dynamic analysis, especially when the horizontal seismic force coefficient $ k_{h} $ and slope angle $ \beta $ are larger, the difference is more significant. With the increase of horizontal seismic force coefficient $ k_{h} $, ratio of slope width to height B/H and amplification factor f, the stability of reinforced soil slope decreases obviously, while the stability of reinforced soil slope increases with the increase of average reinforcement strength $ k_{0} $. The influence of seismic wave period T on slope stability is small, the influence of two reinforcement modes on slope stability is the same, and the effect of triangular reinforcement mode is better.
Keywords: slope engineering; three-dimensional stability analysis; pseudo-dynamic method; reinforcement mode; upper limit theorem; safety factor