...Desheng Zhu; D. V. Griffiths; Gordon A. Fenton; Jinsong Huang; Yufeng Gao In the analysis of slope stability under slow drawdown conditions, it has been shown that there exists a critical pool level that results in the minimum factor of safety. This paper will use the random finite-element method...

...Diana Bianchi; Domenico Gallipoli; Rossella Bovolenta; Martino Leoni This paper describes a simple methodology to calculate the two-dimensional seepage across an infinite unsaturated slope using models of one-dimensional infiltration through horizontal ground. The methodology decomposes the seepage...

... the contribution of suction to unsaturated shear strength to be quantified. Temporal variations in suction's contribution to strength confirms seasonal variability in unsaturated shear strength and thus slope stability. 03 03 2021 14 02 2022 © 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights...

...Te Xiao; Li Min Zhang; Raymond Wai Man Cheung; Suzanne Lacasse Rain-induced man-made slope failures pose great threats to public safety as most man-made slopes are formed in densely populated areas. A critical step in managing landslide risks is to predict the time, locations and consequences...

...Mark Katebi; Dharma Wijewickreme; Pooneh Maghoul; Kshama Roy A series of full-scale experiments was conducted to estimate lateral soil constraints on pipes buried in dense sandy slopes at different burial depths. The experimental data indicated that the soil force on the pipe increases...

...Chengchao Li; Yunfei Guan; Pengming Jiang; Xun Han The ultimate bearing capacity of shallow foundations placed near slopes has long been a critical issue, especially for the obliquely loaded case. However, it is too complicated to find a statically and kinematically admissible field...

...Orazio Casablanca; Giovanni Biondi; Ernesto Cascone; Giuseppe Di Filippo In this paper the static and seismic values of bearing capacity factors for shallow strip foundations adjacent to slopes have been evaluated using the method of characteristics, accounting, through the pseudo-static approach...

...Chen Wang; Bipul Hawlader; Didier Perret; Kenichi Soga Flowslide and spread are two common types of landslides in sensitive clays. Empirical criteria, based on single or multiple soil properties and slope geometry, have been proposed for a rough assessment of potential landslide type...

...Stavroula Kontoe; Freya C. Summersgill; David M. Potts; Youngsuk Lee The stabilisation of slopes with rows of discrete vertical piles is a commonly adopted method for both cuttings and embankment slopes. The majority of existing design procedures consider the pile only as an additional force...

...Andreas Stoecklin; Pavel Trapper; Alexander M. Puzrin Subaqueous slope failures can evolve in various patterns. Whereas some slides run out and further evolve into highly mobile turbidity currents, others maintain a continuum-like structure and remain frontally confined. The different failure modes...

...Shangchuan Yang; Ben Leshchinsky; Kai Cui; Fei Zhang; Yufeng Gao The bearing capacity of shallow foundations may decrease when located near slopes, particularly under seismic conditions. However, there is limited work that isolates the destabilising influences of seismicity and finite slope...

.... The implications for slope stability assessment include the need for changeability of soil parameters and of the ground model, with changes occurring both seasonally and gradually over time. fabric/structure of soils field instrumentation laboratory tests partial saturation slopes 15 02 2019...

...David Boldrin; Anthony K. Leung; Anthony Glyn Bengough Soil bioengineering using vegetation is an environmentally friendly technique for slope stabilisation. Plants stabilise slopes by way of mechanical reinforcement (through root anchorage) and hydrological reinforcement (through transpiration...

... intend to demonstrate that even the integration of a basic elastic strain softening constitutive relationship under simple shear conditions is sufficient to capture such a transition. With this aim, an infinite slope, a homogeneous cemented/bonded soil and an oscillating water table level are considered...

... and the prototype scenario are shown in Table 1 (Garnier et al., 2007). 09 10 2018 14 08 2019 © 2019 Thomas Telford Ltd 2019 centrifuge modelling constitutive relations discrete-element modelling slopes Mass flows occurring in nature, like landslides, debris flows...

... estimations of the geotechnical stability. 24 06 2018 30 08 2019 © 2019 Thomas Telford Ltd 2019 failure finite-element modelling plasticity shear strength slopes soil stabilisation 8 tan ⁡ ϕ ∗ = cos ⁡ ϕ cos φ + δ 1 − sin ⁡ ϕ sin φ + δ...

... as being at risk of, deep-seated slope failure is to install a row of discrete piles along the mid-slope. This paper presents field data from a 9 m high, pile-stabilised embankment at Mill Hill, north London. Initial pore water pressure measurements had shown that the trees present on the earthwork...

...Teng Liang; Jonathan Adam Knappett; Anthony K. Leung; A. Glyn Bengough This paper investigates the seismic performance of rooted granular slopes using dynamic finite-element analysis, validated against recently published centrifuge test data. The importance of selecting suitable strength parameters...

... to the unpredictability, high velocity (up to 20 m/s) and destructive power that typically characterise the flowing mass (Hungr & Jakob, 2005). dams discrete-element modelling environmental engineering landslides numerical modelling slopes © 2019 Thomas Telford Ltd 2019 24 02 2018 20 02...

... pressures and stability analysis of slopes by the limit equilibrium method (LEM) (Vahedifard et al., 2015 , 2016). 28 04 2018 06 02 2019 © 2019 Thomas Telford Ltd 2019 In recent decades, the prominence of geotechnical stability issues such as slope failures has been...