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SLOPE STABILITY - SLIP CIRCLE ANALYSIS

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Slope geometry
Angle of slope;  = 35 deg
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Height of slope; H = 8000 mm

Horizontal length of slope; L = H / Tan() = 11425 mm
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Soil properties
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 = 18.5 kN/m3
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Bulk unit weight;

Drained shear strength; c' = 10 kN/m2
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Shear resistance; ' = 35 deg

Pore pressure ratio; ru = 0.3
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Drained stability - Bishop's simplified method effective stress analysis

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No. (m2) (kN/m) (mm) (deg) (kN/m) (kN/m)

1 0.6 10.3 -181 -0.9 17.5 -0.2
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2 1.6 29.5 850 4.0 26.0 2.1

3 2.5 45.8 2086 10.0 32.5 7.9
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4 3.2 59.1 3322 16.0 37.6 16.3

5 3.7 69.0 4559 22.2 41.5 26.1
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6 4.1 75.3 5795 28.8 44.1 36.2

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7 4.2 77.1 7031 35.7 45.5 45.0

8 4.0 73.3 8267 43.4 45.1 50.3
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Slice Area W x  B T
No. (m2) (kN/m) (mm) (deg) (kN/m) (kN/m)
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9 3.3 61.3 9504 52.1 42.1 48.4

10 1.5 28.3 10534 61.0 28.5 24.7
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Origin co-ordinates; x = 1000 mm
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y = 12000 mm
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Radius of circle; R = 12042 mm
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Sector angle;  = 75.386 deg

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Number of slices; N = 10
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Width of each slice ; b = (AB + L + EF) / N = 1236 mm

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For each slice, angle; N = asin(xN / R)

Slice weight; W N = b  hN  
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uN = r u    h N
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Pore pressure;
BN = [c'  b + (W N - uN  b)  tan(')]  sec(N) / (1 + tan(N)  tan(') / F)
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Shearing force induced along base ; TN = W N  sin(N)

B = 360.309 kN/m
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Sum of shearing forces induced along base ; T = 256.917 kN/m

Factor of safety using Fellenius' method ; F = B / T = 1.402
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