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FIGURE 9.8
Drained residual shear strength envelope from torsional ring shear test on slide plane
material. Also see Fig. 9.9 for the stress-strain plot.
FIGURE 9.9
Shear stress versus displacement from torsional ring shear test on slide plane material.
Also see Fig. 9.8 for the shear strength envelope.
compete, a pseudostatic analysis can be performed, and the only additional information that will
be needed is the seismic coefficient
k
h
.
9.2.6
Other Slope Stability Considerations
To perform a pseudostatic slope stability analysis, a cross section must be developed that
accurately models the existing or design conditions of the slope. Some of the important
