Seismic Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings on Cohesive Soil Slopes by Using Adaptive Finite Element Limit Analysis

Table 5

The types of slope failure.

Failure modes	Descriptions	Cases
Type 1	Bearing capacity failure for the slip line developed within the slope surface	H/B = 2, β = 15°, kh = 0.1, λ = 0 and cu/(γB) = 1 (Figure 12(a))
Type 2	Bearing capacity failure for the slip line extend to the toe of the slope	H/B = 2, β = 45°, kh = 0.1, λ = 1 and cu/(γB) = 1 (Figure 13(e))
Type 3	Bearing capacity failure without influence of the slope	H/B = 2, β = 45°, kh = 0.1, λ = 4 and cu/(γB) = 7.5 (Figure 13(f))
Type 4	Overall slope failure	H/B = 4, β = 75°, kh = 0.1, λ = 1 and cu/(γB) = 1 (Figure 14(i))