Rock Slope Engineering: Civil Applications (Fifth Edition)

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 to weathering grades, groundwater, seismic design and numerical modelling of rock slopes, while retaining clear treatments of planar, wedge, circular and toppling failures. The book is widely cited as the primary rock slope stability manual for civil engineering projects and complements mine-focused open pit slope guidelines.