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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 71
COMPUTATIONAL CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: G. De Roeck and B.H.V. Topping
Paper IX.2

A General Boundary Element Method for Analysis of Slope Stability

Y. Jiang and W.S. Venturini

Department of Structural Engineering, Sao Carlos School of Engineering, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
Y. Jiang, W.S. Venturini, "A General Boundary Element Method for Analysis of Slope Stability", in G. De Roeck, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Computational Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 191-196, 2000. doi:10.4203/ccp.71.9.2
Abstract
This paper illustrates the application of a BEM crack formulation to slope analysis. The formulation requires only hypersingular equations defined at collocations placed along the crack line. The integral equations are derived from the corresponding ones used to model smeared non-linear behaviours, but finding the limit when the dissipation zone width goes to zero. The crack element is used in this work to enforce the stress state along slip surfaces to obey a particular elastoplastic criterion. For simplicity, the well-known coulomb model has been adopted to analyse 2D and 3D examples. The results are compared with those obtained by using classical limit equilibrium methods.

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