PROBABILISTIC APPROACH TO KUALA LUMPUR - KARAK HIGHWAY CUT SLOPE INSTABILITY PROBLEMS. PROCEEDINGS, SIXTH CONFERENCE, ROAD ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA, 4-10 MARCH 1990, KUALA LUMPUR, VOLUMES 1 TO 5 AND POST CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The instability problems associated with residual soil cut slopes along Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway and in many other tropical regions are mainly due to intense and prolonged rainfall. Therefore, a link has to be made between slope hydrology and stability analysis for successful design of these slopes. One such simple link can be made by undertaking an inventory of cut slopes consisting of slope, hydrological and geological variables which can be used as the basis of a semi-empirical approach of cut slope design. The statistical technique undertaken here based on such an inventory is the discriminant analysis. Such a technique provides a simple design rule for other cut slopes along Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway and also those in areas of similar geology, topography and climate. For the covering entry of the conference see IRRD 823206. (Author/TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Road Engineering Association of Asia & Australasia

  Office of the Director-General of Public Works
  Kuala Lumpur,   Malaysia 
• Authors:
  • Othman, Mohd Asbi
  • ANDERSON, M G
  • Hassan, Nik Ramlan Nik
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 22 p.
• Serial:
  • Volume: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Design; Discriminant analysis; Embankments; Geology; Hydrology; Inventory; Rainfall; Residual soils; Slope stability; Stability analysis; Tropics
• Geographic Terms: Malaysia
• Old TRIS Terms: Discriminate analysis
• Subject Areas: Design; Freight Transportation; Geotechnology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00620252
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1992 12:00AM