Slope Stability by the Limit Equilibrium Method: Fundamentals and Methods
Overview of effective-stress LEM procedures with worked examples.
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.
Overview of effective-stress LEM procedures with worked examples.
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…
Shows how uncertainty in groundwater levels and pore-pressure assumptions strongly alters calculated factors of safety.
Describes the Spencer method, a rigorous limit-equilibrium approach that satisfies full equilibrium for slopes and embankments using parallel interslice forces.
3D LEM applied to mine waste dump geometry and materials.
3D continuum modelling of circular dams, highlighting stress redistribution and stability implications.
Improves Newmark displacement predictions by redefining critical acceleration scaling.
Early discussion of implementing slice-based slope stability methods on computers, emphasising both efficiency gains and the continuing need for engineering judgement.
Revises effective-stress treatment in slice methods, improving rigour particularly under partial saturation.
Describes implementing Spencer’s method in STABL5 and highlights differences from earlier STABL versions.
Derivation and discussion of the Ordinary Method of Slices with attention to pore pressures, effective stresses and practical limitations.
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…