<p>This guidance document is intended to be used by VTrans Geotechnical Engineering staff. The secondary audience is the Consultant community who provide geotechnical engineering services to VTrans and whose services are reviewed by the Geotechnical Engineering ...

<p>Slope is an exposed ground surface that stands at an angle with the horizontal. Slopes are required in the construction of highway and railway embankments, earth dams, levees, canals etc., and are generally less expensive. Failure of natural slopes and ...

<p>Despite some preliminary developments for Slope Management Systems (SMS) for the South African Road Network, no functional SMS has been implemented. Slopes along important strategic routes are generally not monitored and only maintained on a reactive basis. ...

Significant research has been performed in recent years to develop load and resistance factor design (LRFD) methods for geotechnical applications. However, one lacking aspect of this work is application to design of earth slopes, including consideration of ...

<p>This paper presents important stages of geotechnical input to safeguard the public from landslide hazards.</p>

A comprehensive study is presented to compare the factors of safety calculated by the Ordinary, Bishop's Simplified, Janbu's Simplified, Janbu's Generalized, Spencer and Morgenstern - Price methods. Results are presented in terms of stability coefficients ...

The paper compares six methods of slices commonly used for slope stability analysis. The factor of safety equations are written in the same form, recognizing wheter moment and (or) force equilibrium is explicitly satisfied. The normal force equation is of ...