The effects of positive pore pressure on sliding and toppling of rock blocks with some considerations of intact rock effects

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 339-353

  West, Terry R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landslides; Pore pressure; Rock slides; Slope stability; Toppling

Indexed keywords

FAILURE MECHANISM; LANDSLIDE; PORE PRESSURE; ROCK SLOPE; SLIDING; SLOPE STABILITY; TOPPLING;

EID: 0030426682     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.3.339     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. BARTON, N., 1976, Shear strength of flat surfaces in rock joints: International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Vol. 13.
2. BELL, F. G., 1993, Engineering Geology: Blackwell Scientific Publications, London, England, 358 p.
3. BIENIAWSKI, Z. T., 1989, Engineering Rock Mass Classifications: John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY, 251 p.
4. BLYTH, F. G. H. AND DE FREITES, M. H., 1984, A Geology for Engineers, 7th Edition: Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 325 p.
5. CANADIAN PIT SLOPE MANUAL, 1977, Minerals Research Program: Mining Research Laboratories, CANMET Report 77-15: Printing and Publishing Supply and Services, Ottowa, Canada.
6. EINSTEIN, H. H.; VENEZIANO, D.; BAECHER, G. B.; AND O'REILLY, K. J., 1983, The effect of discontinuity persistence on rock slope stability: International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 5.
7. FRANKLIN, J. A. AND DUSSEAULT, M. B., 1989, Rock Engineering: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, NY, 600 p.
8. GOODMAN, R. E., 1980, Introduction to Rock Mechanics: John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY.
9. GOODMAN, R. E. AND BRAY, J., 1976, Toppling of rock slopes, in Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Rock Engineering for Foundations and Slopes: American Society of Civil Engineers, Boulder, CO.
10. HOEK, E. AND BRAY, J., 1974, Rock Slope Engineering: Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, London, England.
11. JENNINGS, J. E., 1971, An approach to the stability of rock slopes based on the theory of limiting equilibrium with a material exhibiting anisotropic shear strength, stability of rock slopes, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Rock Mechanics.
12. JOHN, K. W., 1968, Graphical stability analysis of slopes in jointed rock: Journal of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Division, ASCE, Vol. 94, No. SM2, pp. 497-526.
13. MULLER, L., 1964, The Stability of rock bank slopes and effect of rock water on same: International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science, Vol. 1, pp. 475-504.
14. PATTON, F. D., 1966, Multiple modes of shear failure in rock, in Proceedings of the 1st Congress International Society of Rock Mechanics, Vol. 1.
15. PITEAU, D. R. AND ASSOCIATES LTD., 1980, Rock Slope Engineering Federal Highway Administration Reference Manual, FHWA-TS-79-208: Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC.
16. PRIEST, S. D., 1993, Discontinuity Analysis for Rock Engineering: Chapman and Hall, London, England, 473 p.
17. TERZAGHI, K., 1962, Stability of steep slopes in hard unweathered rock: Geotechnique, Vol. 12, pp. 251-270.
18. VOIGHT, B. (editor), 1979, Rock Slides and Avalanches, Vol. 1 and 2: Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
19. VON THUN, J. L., 1975, The practical and realistic solution to rock slope problems, in Design Methods in Rock Mechanics: Proceedings of the 16th Symposium in Rock Mechanics, pp. 139-150.
20. WATTS, C. F. AND WEST, T. R., 1985, Electronic notebook analysis of rock slope stability of Cedar Bluff, Virginia: Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, Vol. XXII, No. 1, pp. 67-85.
21. WATTS, C. F. AND WEST, T. R., 1986, Discontinuity significance index and electronic data collection for rock slope stability studies: Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, Vol. XXIII, No. 3, pp. 265-278.
22. WEST, T. R., 1995, Geology Applied to Engineering: Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 560 p.
23. WEST, T. R. AND KAYA, A., 1994, Rock slope stability analysis along the Pigeon River, Interstate Highway 40, western North Carolina, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress: International Association of Engineering Geology, pp. 2137-2144.