Soil nails are commonly used to strengthen or stabilize a slope. However, slope failure may still happen if the designed depths of soil nails are inadequate. This paper presents a slope failure case history of a soil nails strengthened slope. The slope wasoriginally ...

The importance of soil protection is internationally recognised as soils are vital non-renewable resources that are increasingly under pressure. This study aims to develop a monitoring system for Alpine soils based on soil-landscape relationships and geomorphological ...

This paper presents a procedure to evaluate the triggering of liquefaction in ground subjected to a static shear stress using the yield or peak strength ratio back-calculated from available static loading- and deformation-induced liquefaction flow failures ...

General introduction to slope stability concepts.

The paper provides equations for the hydraulic design of liquid collection layers. A first series of equeations gives the maximum thickness of the liquid collected in a liquid collection layer. These equations are used in design to check that the maximum liquid ...

Liquid collection layers used in landfills often comprise two sections with different slopes. Typically, one of the slopes ismuch steeper than the other one. The steeper slope is generally the downstream slope in a landfill cover and the upstream slope in ...

This technical note examines the reliability of a slope stability calculation and a tunnel support design calculation, using rockmass strength and deformation characteristics estimated by Hoek - Brown procedure.

Dry and hydrated specimens of an unreinforced geomembrane - backed geosynthetic clay liner were sheared against a textured geomembrane using a torsional ring shear apparatus to study the shear behavior of geomembrane encapsulated bentonite.

Mathematic evaluation of K-Integral of shear surface of overconsolidated clay soils in slope stability analysis.