Parametric Study on the Stability of Slopes Subjected to Earthquake Forces

Abstract

For thousands of years, engineers have been grappling with slope instability as an issue in geotechnical and geological engineering. Earthquake loading has a great impact in slope stability. The present study is to investigate the impact of various soil properties and slope geometry on FOS in the presence as well as in the absence of seismic loading. Here, pseudo-static methods are used to analyses seismic slope stability under earthquake loading. From parametric studies, present work concluded that the FOS values start to decline drastically with earthquake impact. Moreover, various prediction models have been developed using Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) & Multiple Non-Linear Regression (MNLR) considering all the data. The input data of slope stability estimation consists of the values of soil parameter, slope parameter and earthquake loading parameters. As an output, MLR and MNLR predict FOS values as a function of these parameters. The model is then checked by comparing the results to another ten actual situations. It was found that the predicted FOS using MNLR gives satisfactory results.