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.
In practice, bolts are commonly used to stabilize rock slopes. It is well recognized that anchor bolts may experience corrosion during their service life, thus leading to a reduction in anchoring effectiveness. However, prior research rarely accounted for the reinforcement…
Woody vegetation, which is present on a large portion of California’s levees, has become a source of concern regarding its potential detrimental effects on the long term performance of the levees. While trees are known to provide habitat for many…
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…
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…
The stability assessment and potential sliding surface determination of open-pit mine slopes are pivotal topics in mine safety. Focusing on an open-pit limestone mine slope in Hebei Province, China, this study proposes a systematic and practical methodology for modeling, stability…
Wesley reviews behavioural characteristics of residual soils, their shear strength, structure, and implications for slope stability. Emphasises tropical/regolith behaviour vs transported soils.
Uses plasticity-based limit analysis to evaluate pore-pressure-affected slopes, providing explicit lower-bound solutions.
Describes concave slope design for mechanical stability and reduced erosion.
Introduces Bishop’s slip-circle method, an efficient and widely used circular limit-equilibrium technique including pore pressures via effective stress.
Cyclic strength behaviour of sand–clay mixtures with varying fines.
Explains Sarma’s seismic slope stability method, its assumptions, and limitations.
Benchmarks common limit-equilibrium methods against more rigorous solutions to assess the accuracy of computed factors of safety.
NZGS bulletin issue containing New Zealand slope‑engineering case histories, remediation works and practice notes.
Reviews emerging slope stability software, outlining desirable methods, features and limitations from a design perspective.