Static and Seismic Stability Charts for Three-Dimensional Cut Slopes and Natural Slopes under Short-Term Undrained Conditions

Table 1

Comparisons between calculated results from the analytical approach of this study and the numerical method of Li et al. (2009, 2010) for the example slope.

		B/H = 2		B/H = 3		B/H = 5		2D
		This study	Numerical result	This study	Numerical result	This study	Numerical result	This study	Numerical result
Cut slopes	Nρ	9.33	10.25	8.62	9.3	7.92	9.0	7.19	7.8
	Fcut	1.68	1.85	1.55	1.68	1.43	1.62	1.30	1.41
Natural slopes	Nρ	8.21	9.1^†	7.59	8.25^†	7.16	7.75^†	6.51	6.3^†(6.6^‡)
	Fnatural	1.48	1.64^†	1.37	1.49^†	1.29	1.40^†	1.17	1.14^†(1.19^‡)

Note. Data retrieved from Table 1 of Li et al. (2009); ^†data retrieved from Table 1 of Li et al. (2009); ^‡data reread from Figure 7(a) of Li et al. (2010) by the authors.