Slope
Slope
Slope
SLOPE STABILITY
Assistant Professor
Berrak Teymur
Slope failure
Compound slip
Modes of Failure
When
Erosion
Rainfall
Earthquakes
Geological Factors
External Loading
Construction Activities
Excavated Slopes
Fill Slopes
Rapid Drawdown
Increment of pore water pressure
The change in topography
Factor of Safety
Factor of Safety:
Fs =
f
d
W=LH
Na
W
Fs =
Ta
c
' tan
Fs =
+
sat H cos 2 tan sat tan
f
tan
c + H cos 2 tan
c
=
=
+
d cd + H cos 2 tan d H cos 2 tan tan
Culmanns Method
Failure of a slope occurs along a plane when av tending to
cause the slip is more than the shear strength of the soil.
cu
La: length of arc
M Re storing
M Disturbing
z
z
z
Ns =
cu
FsH
Rotational Slips
O
R
x1
W1
L1
cu1
x2
W2
cu2
L2
Fs =
Rotational Slips
R[cu1l1 + cu 2l2 ]
W1 x1 +W2 x2
The soil mass above a trial failure surface is divided by vertical planes into a series of slices of
y
width b.
Pw
Fs =
1
c'l + (W cos ul ) tan '
W
sin
cu
Bishop Routine Solution: Assumes resultant forces on the sides of the slices are horizontal.
Fs =
R[cu1l1 + cu 2l2 ]
W1 x1 +W2 x2 + Pw y
2.
3.
4.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Calculate Fs.
Method of Slices
z
(Fellenius/Swedish Solution)
1.
5.
Summary:
z
Bishops Method
Fs =
sec
'
'
W sin
'
/ Fs )
z
z
rW
u= u
b