- Title
- Stability of earth slopes. Part II: Three dimensional analysis in closed-form
- Creator
- Pantelidis, Lysandros; Griffiths, D. V.
- Relation
- International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics Vol. 37, Issue 13, p. 1987-2004
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nag.2116
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- A closed-form stability analysis of earth slopes performed in 3D is proposed. The sliding surface is assumed spherical and treated as a rigid body allowing the internal state of stress to be ignored. The proposed closed-formed solution (CFS) can be applied to both homogenous and non-homogenous slopes of either simple or complex geometry and can also deal with any kind of additional loading. Although it is recognized that the critical failure surface is often non-spherical, the CFS methodology for spheres described herein provides an objective tool for the evaluation of the assumptions made by other limit equilibrium methods including the role of intercolumn forces.
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1293562
- Identifier
- uon:18623
- Identifier
- ISSN:0363-9061
- Language
- eng
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