Geotechnical slope analysis

• Main Author: Chowdhury, Robin
• Other Authors: Flentje, Phil, Bhattacharya, Gautam
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2010.
• Subjects: Slopes (Soil mechanics); elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780203864203
• Physical Description: xxix, 737 p. : ill. (some col.), maps.

Table of Contents:

• Aims and overview : slopes, geology, and materials
• Basic geotechnical concepts
• Performance indicators and basic probability concepts
• Limit equilibrium methods I : planar failure surfaces
• Limit equilibrium methods II : slip surfaces and beyond critical equilibrium
• Stress-deformation analyses and their role in slope analysis
• Natural slope analysis considering initial stresses
• Plasticity and shear band analyses : a brief review
• Earthquake effects and seismic slope analysis
• Probabilistic approaches and reliability analyses
• Case study of urban slope stability
• Summing up.