Research Article
Stability Charts for Pseudostatic Stability Analysis of Rock Slopes Using the Nonlinear Hoek–Brown Strength Reduction Technique
Table 4
Three slope examples analyzed using the proposed seismic stability charts.
| | Input parameters | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 |
| | β (°) | 30 | 75 | 60 | | GSI | 10 | 80 | 50 | | mi | 5 | 15 | 35 | | kh | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | | σci (MPa) | 2.7 | 0.625 | 46 | | γ (kN/m3) | 27 | 25 | 23 | | H (m) | 5 | 25 | 250 | | SR (σci/γH) | 20 | 0.625 | 8 | | FOSβ=45° | 1.170 | 3.085 | 3.434 |
| | Calculated data | | | | | fβ | 1.256 | 0.614 | 0.776 | | fkh | 0.851 | 0.721 | 0.612 | | Proposed charts | 1.251 | 1.366 | 1.631 |
| | FOS | | | | | Slide 6.0 software | 1.320 | 1.381 | 1.642 |
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