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Slope stability

The slope stability is an important topic because it presents risks of socio-economic losses caused by eventual ruptures. It is necessary to identify the site profile, as well as obtaining soil strength parameters for the slope stability analysis. This paper presents and discusses the use of the Flat Dilatometer Test (DMT) in the geotechnical site chara...

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Stability analyses of slopes in soft soils are usually affected by strain-softening, resulting in unrealistic (unconservative) safety factors. The loss of post peak strength cannot be accounted for by classic limit equilibrium analyses. In practice, however, the overall loss of soil strength is generally approximated by Bjerrum correction factor &mu...

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For geotechnical and environmental reasons, landfills are positioned above the regional water table and thus are formed in unsaturated conditions. This condition can be different if the drainage system and the rain regime of the site are such that they create a level of internal liquid in the landfill. During January and February 2019, excessive movemen...

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Recent major upstream raised tailings dam failures have led to a reopening of the discussion of the validity of some of the existing routine practices within the profession. Despite its many shortcomings, deterministic slope stability limit equilibrium analysis is and will continue to be, at least for some time ahead, an important tool for tailings dams...

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