This library brings together respected third-party papers, reports, and reference material on slope stability. Each entry includes a short summary and a link to the original source so you can explore the full publication.
Comprehensive guide to investigation, design and remediation of civil rock slopes, including cuttings, highway and railway slopes, benches and natural rock faces. Wyllie updates the classic Hoek and Bray text with new material on weathered rock, shear strength in relation…
Specialist reference on rock fall processes, hazard assessment and mitigation measures for transport corridors, infrastructure and slopes. Wyllie describes causes of rock falls, including geology, climate and topography, and presents detailed case histories on rock fall trajectories, impact energies and…
Uses back-analysis of real slope failures to infer mobilised strengths and pore-pressure conditions at failure.
Analysis of steep slopes in cemented sands.
Derivation and discussion of the Ordinary Method of Slices with attention to pore pressures, effective stresses and practical limitations.
Analysis of slopes stability for weathered crystalline rocks like the schists of Caracas necessitates an approach distinct from procedures routinely applicable to hard, fractured rocks, on the one hand, or soils, on the other hand. Neither of the latter two…
Slope failures in opencast coal mines in the Northern Waikato Coal Region commonly occur in the vicinity of major faults where they define pit limits. In-pit engineering geological mapping at the Kopuku Sector of the Maramarua Coalfield demonstrates the existence…
Emphasises the importance of hand calculations and introduces a simple effective stress solution for slope stability.
Practical reference on shear strength of soils and its application to the stability of natural and engineered slopes, embankments and earth dams. Duncan, Wright and Brandon explain drained and undrained strength, effective stress, stress–strain behaviour and selection of design parameters,…
Introduces reliability-based slope stability methods using probabilistic treatment of soil and pore-pressure parameters.
Develops a 3D minimum-potential-energy slope stability model avoiding column discretisation.
Formulates slope stability as a finite‑element eigenvalue problem, linking critical states to the smallest eigenvalue of the stiffness matrix.
Develops a general 3D LEM method enabling rigorous analysis of non-planar 3D slip surfaces.
The paper proposes and evaluates a finite-element-based interslice force function for use in limit-equilibrium analyses.
Shows that 3D slopes have a unique sliding direction not captured by 2D analysis.
Introduces the Morgenstern-Price method for general, non-circular slip surfaces with flexible interslice force functions and full equilibrium.
Describes implementing Spencer’s method in STABL5 and highlights differences from earlier STABL versions.
