CE 240 Soil Mechanics & Foundations Lecture 14.

Slope Stability III (Das, Ch. 14)

Outline
Other solutions for steady-state seepage condition
Cousins charts Spencers solution Michalowskis solution

Morgensterns method of slices for rapid drawdown condition Fluctuation of factor of safety of slopes in clay embankment on saturated clay
Cuts in saturated clay

Fig 14.29

Fig 14.30

slope failure
H

toe failure

DH

base failure

Spencers solution

Fig. 14.32

SUMMARY: KEY POINTS

a. Angle of repose for dry granular soils b. Influence of seepage on granular soils c. Slope stability for homogeneous slopes in saturated clay (NC)
i. simple analyses

d. Frictional soils more difficult

iii. Method of slices

e. Slope stability programs use limit equilibrium

POINTS, continued
f. Slope stability programs search for the failure surface with lowest FS g. Bishops simplified method for circular slips h. Importance of shear strength parameters
vi. drained and/or undrained? vii. peak, ultimate or critical state?

The Bishop Equation

(cbi + (Wi u i bi )tan) Mi F= Wisini
Where

tan i tan M i = cos i 1 + F

Example: Problem 14.25 Use Bishop and Morgensterns method to determine the minimum FS of a slope with the following parameters: H = 6 m; = 18.43; = 20; c = 6 kPa; = 20 kPa/m; ru = 0.5. Solution: First, the ratio

6 c' kPa = = 0.05 H 20 6 m kPa / m

Next, in the text section 14.11 the procedure for using the Bishop and Morgensterns method has been described as:

Bishop-Morgenstern method

You do not have to use Eqn. 14.79 to do the actual calculation, but simply use Table 14.2 in p.576-580 you can get the answer.

D 1.00 1.25 1.50

m 1.840 1.834 2.011

n 1.387 1.493 1.705

FS = m-nru 1.15 1.09 1.16

So the minimum FS is 1.09.

Reading Assignment: Das, Ch. 14

HW 1: Problem 14.24