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 introduction to rock mechanics, covering intact rock properties, rock mass classification, stress and deformation, fracture mechanics and discontinuities, with direct implications for slope stability, tunnelling and foundations. Goodman develops the fundamental physics of rock behaviour and links laboratory data…
Systematic treatment of engineering rock mechanics, starting from stress, strain and failure of intact rock and extending to rock mass characterisation, in situ stress measurement and design methods for slopes, tunnels and foundations. Hudson and Harrison integrate analytical, empirical and…
Research-focused monograph that examines rock slope failure mechanisms in complex geological settings, combining laboratory testing, field observation and advanced numerical modelling. Zhang introduces kinematical element and discontinuity kinematical element methods, stochastic karst cave modelling, improved strength reduction and fracture mechanics…
The infinite slope equation serves as a useful tool for assessing the stability of long, shallow slopes. Alternatively, the finite-el-ement method provides insights into long-slope failure mechanisms and deformation profiles. Both methods are suitable for probabilisticanalyses that incorporate spatially variable…
Derivation and discussion of the Ordinary Method of Slices with attention to pore pressures, effective stresses and practical limitations.
This paper reports the limitation of the conventional Bishop’s simplified method to calculate the safety factor of slopes stabilized with anchors, and proposes a new approach to considering the reinforcing effect of anchors on the safety factor. The reinforcing effect…
2D slope stability analyses have been performed using various software packages on a routine basis in geotechnical engineering since the 1980s. Many of these 2D packages are now used by geotechnical consultants, often with little regard for the potential differences…
Pre-stressed anchor cables are widely used in slope engineering for effectively improving slope stability as a reinforcement measure. Based on assumptions of stresses on a slip surface, this work proposes a new limit equilibrium (LE) method to analyse the stability…
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…
Instabilities in rock slopes are often triggered along planar joints with weakened shear strength, inducing translational failures. In intact rocks, however, the kinematics of failure may exhibit rotation, which is a more common occurrence also in soil slopes. A slope instability in…
Advanced treatment of the physical and physico-chemical behaviour of soils, covering soil composition, fabric, water–soil interactions, consolidation, creep, cyclic behaviour and critical state concepts. Mitchell, Soga and O’Sullivan emphasise microstructure and the links between soil fabric and macroscopic properties used…
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…
The thesis investigates Jabiru failures, hydraulic conductivity variability, rainfall intensity–duration–antecedent patterns, and develops a screening tool for predicting landslides.
Cyclic strength behaviour of sand–clay mixtures with varying fines.
Technical discussion on 3D LEM.
Geotechnical engineers understand there is uncertainty and risk in the input parameters for slope stability analyses and within the analysis methodologies themselves. Decades of research and inverse analyses of slope failures have resulted in widespread acceptance of certain factors of…
Compares LEM, FEM-SRM and DEM approaches for analysing slope stability.
Introduces a displacement-based rigorous 3D LEM incorporating constitutive soil behaviour.
PhD thesis proposing an acceptability-criteria framework for seismic slope design, including procedures to locate the critical slip surface under earthquake loading.
Develops a general solution linking seepage direction to slope failure potential.
