STABILITY OF SLOPE

DUE TO
VEGETATION

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 ABSTRACT
ANALYZING OF SLOPE STABILITY
WITH VARIOUS TYPE OF VEGETATIVE
PATTERNS AND COMPARING THE
FACTOR OF SAFETY .
FORMULATION FOR ANALYSIS OF
VEGETATION USING MATLAB FOR
SHEAR STRESS.
 TYPES OF FAILURE
Transnational Failure
Rotational Failure
Wedge Failure
Compound Failure
 CAUSES OF FAILURE OF SLOPES

Gravitational force
Force due to seepage water
Erosion of the surface of slopes due
to flowing water
The sudden lowering of water
adjacent to a slope
Forces due to earthquakes
 FACTOR OF SAFETY

The factor of safety defines the

stability of force against its self
weight as well
as the various forces on the slope
Factor of Safety is defined as ratio
of Restoring Force to Disturbing Force
FOS= Restoring Force /Disturbing
Force
 FACTORS EFFECTING STABILITY OF
SLOPE
Slope Geometry/ soil properties
Geological discontinuities
Effect of Water
Geotechnical Properties of Material
Mining Methods
State of stress/ Stress History
Temperature
Erosion
Seismic Load
Vegetation/ Deforestations
 REMEDIAL MEASURES FOR SLOPE
STABILITY
Drainage and Water Control
Surface Drainage
Subsurface Drainage
Stabilization Through Support
Surface Drainage
Steel reinforcement
Rock anchor
Rock Bolts
Rock Dowels Soil Nailing
Piles
Geosynthetic Reinforcement
 Other Methods For Stabilization
Grouting and Shotcreting
Vegetation
 VEGETATION

It influences the slope stability in two ways:

1. Hydrological effect
2. Mechanical effect

Hydrological effects involve the removal of soil water by:

. evapotranspiration through vegetation, which lead to an
increase in soil suction or a reduction in pore-water
. pressure, hence, an increase in the soil shear strength.
 Mechanical effects increase the shear strength of the
plant root matrix system. The density of the roots within the
soil mass and the root tensile strength contribute to the
ability of the soils to resist shear stress.

The effects of soil suction and root reinforcement has been

quantified as an increase in apparent soil cohesion.
Shear strength of soil increase due to root reinforcement. The
increase in shear strength of the soil, Sr, was expressed by the
following relationship:
Sr = tR (cos tan + sin )
where Sr = shear strength increase from root
reinforcement, tR = average tensile strength of root per
unit area of
soil, = angle of shear rotation, and = friction angle.
 Vegetation-dependent parameters used in the slope
stability analysis are apparent root cohesion(cR) and depth
of root zone (hR).
Apparent root cohesion (cR) is the apparent soil cohesion
caused by the plant root matrix system. The depth of the
root zone (hR) is defined as the effective distance beyond
which plant roots cause little or no effects on the soil shear
strength. Two scenarios are considered:
1. vegetation confined to the slope surface only; and
2. vegetation extending over the entire ground surface.
 The Mohr-Coulomb equation is used to describe the shear
Strength of the soil: = c + ( - u) tan (2)
By incorporating the effect of root reinforcement, Equation
(2) becomes:
= (c + cR) + ( - u) tan
 References
Modelling the Effects of Vegetation on Stability of Slopes-Y
H Chok, W S Kaggwa