Significant uncertainties can be found in the modelling of geotechnical materials. This can
be attributed to the complex behaviour of soils and rocks amidst construction processes …

Vegetation plays an important role in improving slope stability. It is crucial to develop simple
and effective methods for assessing the stability of vegetated slopes. Based on upper bound …

This paper aims at studying the active and passive earth pressures on the retaining
structures having an unsaturated backfill. To this end, the well-established lower bound limit …

Assessing the seismic stability of earth slopes has long been a challenging task in
geotechnical engineering mainly because of two reasons:(1) the mechanism of slope …

Based on limit analysis and pseudo-dynamic methods, a proposed method for evaluating
slope stability under seismic conditions that considers dynamic changes in the axial force of …

The presence of surface cracks has a great influence on the formation of transient saturated
zones, which are one of the main factors affecting the stability of colluvial soil slopes during …

To investigate the influence of a rapid water drawdown (RWD) on the seismic response
characteristics of reservoir rock slopes, numerical dynamic analyses and shaking table tests …

The stability of three-dimensional (3D) slopes with cracks is presented based on the
kinematic approach of limit analysis. The sequence quadratic program optimization …

In this study, an analytical approach is developed to obtain the upper-bound solutions of the
slope stability, for both static and dynamic conditions, based on the limit analysis theory …

Although a cohesionless backfill is recommended for geosynthetic reinforced earth retaining
walls, cohesive soil have been widely used in many regions across the globe for economic …