DHS STABILITY OF DOWNSTREAM SLOPE OF EARTHEN EMBANKMENT DATE:25/03/2018

A CALCULATION OF WEIGHT OR DOWNWARD ACTING FORCES ON SLICES

SUBMERGED SECTION (BPL) DRY SECTION (APL) ANGLE
SR.NO. NORMAL
AREAS WEIGHTS AREAS WEIGHTS TOTAL WITH COMPONENT
S&F CORE S&F CORE S&F CORE S&F CORE WEIGHT NORMAL COSINE
UNIT
WEIGHT 10.85 10.35 20.48 19.81
1 300.9953 0 3265.799 0 365.2277 0 7479.863 0 10745.66 -15 0.965926 10379.51
2 609.0649 13.5912 6608.3542 140.66892 945.6996 0 19367.93 0 26116.95 6 0.994522 25973.88
3 315.9762 828.048 3428.3418 8570.2968 408.608 20.1692 8368.292 399.5519 20766.48 27 0.891007 18503.07
4 131.3281 324.9318 1424.9099 3363.0441 53.6022 34.3851 1097.773 681.1688 6566.896 47 0.681998 4478.612
TOTAL 59335.08

B CALCULATION OF COHESIVE FORCES

SR.NO. ARC LENGHTS COHESIVE FORCES REMARKS
S&F CORE S&F CORE
COHESION TOTAL
FACTOR C 26.98 37.84
1 44.45 1199.261 0 1199.261 VALUES OF ARC
2 44.45 1199.261 0 1199.261 LENGHTS ARE
3 17.85 26.59 481.593 1006.1656 1487.7586 COMPUTED THROUGH
4 12.54 26.53 338.3292 1003.8952 1342.2244 CAD
TOTAL 5228.505

C CALCULATION OF TANGENTIAL SLIPPING FORCES

SATURATED SECTION (BPL)
SR.NO. AREAS WEIGHTS
TANGENTIAL
S&F CORE S&F CORE TOTAL ANGLE COMPONENT
UNIT WITH
WEIGHT 20.85 20.35 NORMAL SINE
1 300.9953 0 6275.752 0 6275.752 -15 -0.25882 -1624.28
2 609.0649 13.5912 12699.003 276.58092 12975.584 6 0.104528 1356.318
3 315.9762 828.048 6588.1038 16850.777 23438.881 27 0.45399 10641.03

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4 131.3281 324.9318 2738.1909 6612.3621 9350.553 47 0.731354 6838.562

TOTAL 17211.62

COMPUTATION OF FRICTION FORCES

D NORMAL COMPONENT ∅ TAN∅ FRICTION
59335.07566 25 0.4663077 27668.4

FACTOR OF SAFETY CALCULATIONS

NUMERATOR (STABILIZING FORCES) DENOMINATOR (DESTABLILIZING FORCES)
E COHESION FRICTION RATIO
FORCES FORCES TOTAL TANGENTIAL COMPONENT
5228.505 27668.4 32896.905 17211.62439 1.911319

INFERENCE
F
Safe, Since the Ratio is greater than 1 the slope is stable

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