scholarly journals Comparative study of seismic and non-seismic analysis of a soil slope to develop correlations for factor of safety considering horizontal and vertical seismic coefficients

2020 ◽  
Vol 529 ◽  
pp. 012013
Author(s):  
Muhammad Israr Khan ◽  
Shuhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Soil Slope

scholarly journals SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF A SOIL SLOPE TO DEVELOP CORRELATIONS FOR FACTOR OF SAFETY CONSIDERING HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL SEISMIC COEFFICIENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Muhammad Israr Khan ◽  
Shuhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Soil Slope ◽  
Seismic Coefficient ◽  
Soil Slopes ◽  
Slope Design

Seismic analysis of soil slopes is required to get safe value for slope design. Especially in earthquake zones. Normally a variation in factor of safety values is observed in normal analysis of a slope where seismic coefficients are kept zero as compare to seismic analysis where seismic coefficients are considered in the analysis. In this research, seismic horizontal coefficients are used to find the factors of safety. Correlations are developed between factor of safety values and seismic coefficients. The correlation can be used to find the factor of safety in any slope stability project for a homogenous slope. The outcome of this work are the correlations. These correlations can be used to find the factor of safety values considering horizontal seismic coefficient, vertical seismic coefficient and both.

scholarly journals Numerical Analysis of Soil Slope Stabilization by Soil Nailing Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 4469-4473
Author(s):  
D. A. Mangnejo ◽  
S. J. Oad ◽  
S. A. Kalhoro ◽  
S. Ahmed ◽  
F. H. Laghari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Slope Instability ◽  
Soil Nailing ◽  
Soil Slope ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Soil Nail ◽  
Soil Shear Strength ◽  
Nail Diameter

Slope instability may be a result of change in stress conditions, rise in groundwater table and rainfall. Similarly, many slopes that have been stable for several years can abruptly fail due to changes in geometry, weak soil shear strength or as the effect of an external force. Debris flows (i.e. slope failures) take place without any warning and can have devastating results. So, it is vital to understand the slope failure mechanism and adopt safety prevention measures. Soil nailing is one of the widely used stabilization techniques for soil slopes. In this study, soil nail technique is proposed to upgrade the existing slope in clay. A parametric study was conducted to understand the effects of different nail diameter (i.e. 25mm and 40mm) and nail inclination (i.e. 200, 250, 300, 350 and 400) on slope stability. Morgenstern-Price (i.e. limit equilibrium) method was used to determine the factor of safety of the slope. It was found that the factor of safety of the existing slope improved significantly with three rows of 40mm diameter nail at an inclination of 400.

Seismic analysis of nailed soil slope considering interface effects

2017 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 480-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhanaji Chavan ◽  
Goutam Mondal ◽  
Amit Prashant
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Soil Slope ◽  
Interface Effects

scholarly journals Failure Mechanism and Factor of Safety for Spatially Variable Undrained Soil Slope

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Li ◽  
Xuesong Chu
Keyword(s):  
Random Field ◽  
Failure Mechanism ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Vertical Direction ◽  
Failure Surface ◽  
Cohesive Soil ◽  
Soil Slope ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Undrained Soil

This paper aims to investigate the differences in factor of safety (FS) and failure mechanism (FM) for spatially variable undrained soil slope between using finite element method (FEM) , finite difference method (FDM), and limit equilibrium method (LEM). The undrained shear strength of cohesive soil slope is modeled by a one-dimensional random field in the vertical direction. The FS and FM for a specific realization of random field are determined by SRT embedded in FEM- and FDM-based software (e.g., Phase2 6.0 and FLAC) and LEM, respectively. The comparative study has demonstrated that the bishop method (with circular failure surface) exhibits performance as fairly good as that of SRT both in FS and FM for the undrained slope cases where no preferable controlling surfaces such as hydraulic tension crack and inclined weak seams dominate the failure mechanism. It is, however, worthwhile to point out that unconservative FM is provided by the Bishop method from the aspect of failure consequence (i.e., the failure consequence indicated by the FM from the Bishop method is smaller than that from SRT). The rigorous LEM (e.g., M-P and Spencer method with noncircular failure surface) is not recommended in the stability analysis of spatially variable soil slopes before the local minima and failure to converge issues are fully addressed. The SRT in combination with FEM and/or FDM provides a rigorous and powerful tool and is highly preferable for slope reliability of spatially variable undrained slope.

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