Soil strength and slope stability

"Soil Strength and Slope Stability is the essential text for the critical assessment of natural and man-made slopes. Extensive case studies throughout help illustrate the principles and techniques described, including a new examination of Hurricane Katrina failures, plus examples of soil and slope engineering from around the world. Extraneous theory has been excluded to place the focus squarely on the practical application of slope design and analysis techniques, including information about standards, regulations, formulas, and the use of software in analysis."--pub. desc.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- Summary -- ch. 2 Examples And Causes Of Slope Failures -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Examples of Slope Failure -- 2.3. The Olmsted Landslide -- 2.4. Panama Canal Landslides -- 2.5. The Rio Mantaro Landslide -- 2.6. Kettleman Hills Landfill Failure -- 2.7. Causes of Slope Failure -- 2.8. Summary -- ch. 3 Soil Mechanics Principles -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Total and Effective Stresses -- 3.3. Drained and Undrained Shear Strengths -- 3.4. Basic Requirements for Slope Stability Analyses -- ch. 4 Stability Conditions For Analysis -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. End-of-Construction Stability -- 4.3. Long-Term Stability -- 4.4. Rapid (Sudden) Drawdown -- 4.5. Earthquake -- 4.6. Partial Consolidation and Staged Construction -- 4.7. Other Loading Conditions -- 4.8. Analysis Cases for Earth and Rockfill Dams -- ch. 5 Shear Strength -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Behavior of Granular Materials---Sand, Gravel, and Rockfill -- 5.3. Silts -- 5.4. Clays.

Contents note continued: 5.5. Municipal Solid Waste -- ch. 6 Mechanics Of Limit Equilibrium Procedures -- 6.1. Definition of the Factor of Safety -- 6.2. Equilibrium Conditions -- 6.3. Single …