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.
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,…
Updated textbook on geotechnical earthquake engineering that covers seismology, strong ground motion, site response and dynamic soil behaviour, leading into seismic design of foundations, retaining structures and slopes. Kramer presents performance-based earthquake engineering concepts, probabilistic hazard assessment and practical procedures…
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…
Comprehensive guideline developed under the Large Open Pit (LOP) project that documents the full open pit slope design process from project scoping through operation and closure. Read and Stacey integrate contributions from many authors on geology, rock mass characterisation, hydrology,…
Static Slope Stability in Practice: Drained Shear Strengths provides a comprehensive walkthrough on drained stability analyses and the practical application of drained soil shear strengths for both natural and engineering slopes, highlighting the mechanisms underlying the behavior of slopes under static…
Companion volume to the main LOP guideline that focuses on open pit slope design in weak and weathered rocks such as saprolites, altered volcanics and weak sedimentary sequences. Martin and Stacey present guidance on geological and geotechnical models for weak…
Extensive reference on both analysis and remediation of unstable slopes in soil and rock, integrating geotechnical investigation, limit equilibrium and numerical analysis with design of stabilisation measures. Abramson, Lee, Sharma and Boyce cover general slope stability concepts, common modes of…
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…
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…
Conceptual paper linking soil stress–strain behaviour, pore pressures and progressive failure with the interpretation of limit-equilibrium stability analyses.
Derives 3D upper‑bound solutions and charts for slope stability, quantifying when 3D effects are important compared with 2D analyses.
Reviews practical 3D slope stability behaviour and software limitations.
The thesis investigates Jabiru failures, hydraulic conductivity variability, rainfall intensity–duration–antecedent patterns, and develops a screening tool for predicting landslides.
Critiques a 3D stress-based stability method that shows unrealistic sensitivity to Poisson’s ratio and clarifies expected behaviour based on numerical re-analysis.
Explains practical methods for representing pore-water pressures in LEM and compares their effects on FS.
PhD thesis proposing an acceptability-criteria framework for seismic slope design, including procedures to locate the critical slip surface under earthquake loading.
Shows how uncertainty in groundwater levels and pore-pressure assumptions strongly alters calculated factors of safety.
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…
VandenBerge, Duncan and Brandon analyse why transient seepage models often mispredict pore-water pressures during rapid drawdown or external water-level changes. They show that boundary assumptions, soil permeability, and drainage conditions strongly affect results, leading to overly conservative or nonconservative FS…
