CE 673 - STABILITY OF EARTH SLOPES

College of Engineering

Credit(s): 3

Review of shear strength principle including laboratory and field tests for shear strength and shear strength of unsaturated soils; theoretical and practical aspects of infinite slopes, block analysis, method of slices, effective and total stress analysis, analysis of unsaturated slopes, commercial software packages for slope stability analysis, probabilistic analysis of slope stability problems, rapid drawdown, and slope failure mitigation.