Journal
GEOTECHNIQUE
Volume 59, Issue 6, Pages 545-549Publisher
THOMAS TELFORD PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1680/geot.8.T.004
Keywords
failure; partial saturation; slopes; suction
Categories
Funding
- Iarnrod Eireann
- Tongji University
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This paper describes the development of a probabilistic design approach to analyse the stability of unsaturated soil slopes. Instability of unsaturated soil slopes is caused by the downwards progression of a wetting front, which reduces the near-surface suctions, increases the weight of soil in the failure zone and reduces the soil strength. Assuming the slip surface forms parallel to the slope surface (at a depth equal to the wetting front depth) the probability of failure is determined in this paper through the reliability index determined using a computationally efficient genetic algorithm method.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available