There are typically three types of models involved in a geotechnical analysis, ie, the
geologic model, the ground model, and the geotechnical model, each of which may be …

Freshly updated and extended version of Slope Analysis (Chowdhury, Elsevier, 1978). This
reference book gives a complete overview of the developments in slope engineering in the …

Rainfall-induced landslides pose a significant threat to the public safety in many parts of the
world especially in tropical or subtropical mountainous areas. The research field of …

This paper presents an efficient probabilistic method for predicting rainfall-induced slope
failures based on Monte Carlo simulation. The suggested method can calculate the time …

With a suction stress–based effective stress representation, stability analysis of unsaturated
engineered and natural slopes can be performed effectively in the same manner as the …

On 30th July 2014, a devastating landslide resulted in the burial of a village called Malin in
western India and led to about 160 deaths. The catastrophic failure was triggered by heavy …

Slope failures in the southwestern region of India in the state of Karnataka are induced by
prolonged heavy rainfall during the monsoon season. Due to damage to livestock …

To investigate the influence of spatial variability of hydraulic parameters on the flow in earth
dams, saturated-unsaturated seepage is numerically simulated combining Monte Carlo …

Abstract Knowledge of pore water pressure in an earth dam is crucial for analyzing its
mechanical stability. In classical calculations of these pressures, great uncertainty exists …

This paper discusses the second-order reliability-based design optimization (SORBDO) of
unsaturated finite slopes. An efficient search algorithm is proposed to locate the most …