SLOPE STABILITY IN PARTIALLY SATURATED SANDY SOILS

When producing gravels and sands, and also carrying out dredging excavations and service trenches, escarpments up to vertical walls are observed. The main reason for these steep slopes remaining stable, at an inclination which is steeper than the angle of internal friction, is to be found in the so-called apparent cohesion (due to capillary forces). In this paper, the experience gained when formulating real strength parameters and consequences on stability analysis are discussed. For the covering abstract see IRRD 881647.

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  AA Balkema

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• Authors:
  • BILZ, P
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNSATURATED SOILS/UNSAT '95/PARIS/FRANCE/6-8 SEPTEMBER 1995. VOLUME 1
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 257-64

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cohesion; Conferences; Excavation; Excavations; Percent saturation; Pore water pressures; Sand; Slope stability
• ITRD Terms: 5903: Cohesion; 8525: Conference; 5907: Degree of saturation (mater); 5155: Excavation (process); 5762: Pore water pressure; 4105: Sand; 5783: Slope stability
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00729094
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 90-5410-583-6
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 12 1996 12:00AM