The effect of bermuda grass root morphology on the displacement of slope

¹ College of Construction Engineering, Jiangsu Open University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210019, China ;
² College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210037, China

^* Corresponding author: E-mail:jixlsuny@126.com

Abstract

During recent years, with the drastic development of highway, lots of slopes are produced which cause the increase of geological disasters including soil erosion on the slope and shallow sliding surface, it makes significant impact on the ecological environment. Adopting ecological protection technique of plant slope protection not only can prevent geological disasters, but also benefit the protection of ecological environment. In the paper, bermuda grass, as one kind of ordinary slope protection plants, was chosen as specimen, and the root-soil composite was regarded as organic system which consists of soil and root system; the effect of root morphology on displacement of slope surface under the function of rain erosion and slope runoff erosion was studied and analyzed by using nonlinearity finite calculation method. The result indicates Bermuda grass root system can defense the rain erosion of slope surface soil, restrain the soil displacement and prevent water and soil erosion of slope.