Journal
ENGINEERING GEOLOGY
Volume 108, Issue 1-2, Pages 133-141Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.06.010
Keywords
Critical failure surface; Slope stability; Ant colony optimization; Factor of safety
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Slope stability analysis of any natural or artificial slope aims at determining the factor of safety of the slip surface that possesses the lowest factor of safety. In this study, an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is developed to solve this factor-of-safety minimization problem. Factors of safety of slip surfaces are found by using the Morgenstern-Price method, which satisfies both force and moment equilibrium. Nonlinear equations from the Morgenstern-Price method are solved numerically by the Newton-Raphson method. In the proposed ACO algorithm, the initiation point and the shape of the slip surface are treated as the search variables. The proposed heuristic algorithm represents slip surfaces as piecewise-linear curves and solves for the optimal curve yielding the minimum factor of safety. To demonstrate its applicability and to investigate the validity and effectiveness of the algorithm, four examples with varying complexity are presented. The obtained results are compared with the available literature and are found to be in agreement. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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