Influence of heterogeneity on undrained clay slope stability

Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-49

  Hicks, Michael A ^a   Samy, Kristinah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clay; Finite element; Heterogeneity; Reliability; Shear strength; Slope stability; Stochastic analysis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLAY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY;

NATURAL MATERIALS;

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

CLAY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSLIDE; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 0036172687     PISSN: 14709236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/qjegh.35.1.41     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Spatial variability of the undrained strength of clays
2. A state parameter for sands
3. Characterizing spatial variability of a clay by geostatistics
4. Simulation of random fields via local average subdivision
5. A note on the stability of cuttings in normally consolidated clays
6. Influence of soil strength spatial variability on the stability of an undrained clay slope by finite elements
7. Stochastic analysis of saturated soils using finite elements
8. Some numerical results concerning the shear strength of London clay
9. Stability of simple cuttings in normally consolidated clays
10. The variability of natural soils
11. Application of Monot to the modelling of spatially varying soils
12. Reliability of an undrained clay slope formed from spatially random soil
13. Characterization of geotechnical variability
14. Numerical simulations of soil liquefaction using stochastic input parameters
15. Effects of spatial variability on soil liquefaction: Some design recommendations
16. Modelling spatial variability of soil parameters
17. Stability of earth slopes
18. Probabilistic modeling of soil profiles
19. Reliability of earth slopes
20. Scale of fluctuation as a descriptor of soil variability