Locating the general failure surface of earth slope using particle swarm optimisation

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-57

  Khajehzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Raihan Taha, Mohd ^a   El Shafie, Ahmed ^a   Eslami, Mahdiyeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

critical failure surface; factor of safety; limit equilibrium; particle swarm optimisation; slope stability

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK FUNCTIONS; CRITICAL FAILURE SURFACE; CRITICAL FAILURES; EARTH SLOPE; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FAILURE SURFACE; HIGH QUALITY; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM; LIMIT EQUILIBRIUM METHODS; MOMENT EQUILIBRIUM; MORGENSTERN-PRICE METHOD; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMISATION; SLIP SURFACES; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS; SLOPE-STABILITY PROBLEMS; STANDARD PSO;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SAFETY FACTOR;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ALGORITHM; FAILURE MECHANISM; OPTIMIZATION; SAFETY; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 84858435566     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: 10290249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2012.663356     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Arai, K. and Tagyo, K. 1986. Determination of noncircular slip surface giving the minimum factor of safety in slope stability analysis. Soils and Foundations, 26(3): 152-154.
2. Baker, R. 1980. Determination of the critical slip surface in slope stability computations. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 4(4): 333-359.
3. Bishop, A. W. 1955. The use of the slip circle in the stability analysis of earth slopes. Geotechinque, 5(1): 7-17.
4. Cheng, Y. M. 2003. Location of critical failure surface and some further studies on slope stability analysis. Computers and Geotechnics, 30(3): 255-267.
5. Cheng, Y. M. and Lau, C. K. 2008. Slope stability analysis and stabilization: new methods and insight, London: Taylor & Francis.
6. Cheng, Y., Lansivaara, T. and Siu, J. 2008a. Impact of convergence on slope stability analysis and design. Computers and Geotechnics, 35(1): 105-113.
7. Cheng, Y. M. 2008b. Determination of the critical slip surface using artificial fish swarms algorithm. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 134(2): 244-251.
8. Fellenius, W. Calculation of the stability of earth dams. In: Proceedings of the second congress on large dams, Vol. 4, pp.445-463. Washington, DC
9. Goh, A. 2000. Search for critical slip circle using genetic algorithms. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 17(3): 181-211.
10. Greco, V. R. 1996. Efficient Monte Carlo technique for locating critical slip surface. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 122(7): 517-525.
11. He, S. 2004. A particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation. Biosystems, 78(1-3): 135-147.
12. Janbu, N. 1973. Slope stability computations. Embankment dam engineering, New York: Wiley.
13. Kahatadeniya, K. S., Nanakorn, P. and Neaupane, K. M. 2009. Determination of the critical failure surface for slope stability analysis using ant colony optimization. Engineering Geology, 108(1-2): 133-141.
14. Kennedy, J. and Eberhart, R. Particle swarm optimization. IEEE international conference on neural networks. Vol. 4, pp.1942Perth, Australia
15. Khajehzadeh, M., Taha, M. R. and El-Shafie, A. 2011. Reliability analysis of earth slopes using hybrid chaotic particle swarm optimization. Journal of Central South University of Technology, 18(5): 1626-1637.
16. Khajehzadeh, M. 2012. A modified gravitational search algorithm for slope stability analysis. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, in press, doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2012.01.011.
17. Malkawi, A. I.H., Hassan, W. F. and Sarma, S. K. 2001. Global search method for locating general slip surface using Monte Carlo techniques. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 127(8): 688-698.
18. Morgenstern, N. R. and Price, V. E. 1965. The analysis of the stability of general slip surfaces. Geotechinque, 15(1): 79-93.
19. Pham, H. T.V. and Fredlund, D. G. 2003. The application of dynamic programming to slope stability analysis. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 40(4): 830-847.
20. Shi, Y. and Eberhart, R. A modified particle swarm optimizer. IEEE world congress on evolutionary computation. pp.69-73. Alaska: Anchorage.
21. Spencer, E. 1967. A method of analysis of the stability of embankments assuming parallel inter-slice forces. Geotechnique, 17(1): 11-26.
22. Sridevi, B. and Deep, K. Application of global optimization technique to slope stability analysis. Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on landslide. pp.573-578. Christchurch, New Zealand
23. Yamagami, T. and Ueta, Y. Search for noncircular slip surfaces by the Morgenstern-Price method. Proceedings of the 6th international conference on numerical methods in geomechanics. pp.1219-1223. Innsbruck
24. Zhu, D. 2005. A concise algorithm for computing the factor of safety using the Morgenstern-Price method. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 42(1): 272-278.
25. Zolfaghari, A. R., Heath, A. C. and McCombie, P. F. 2005. Simple genetic algorithm search for critical non-circular failure surface in slope stability analysis. Computers and Geotechnics, 32(3): 139-152.