Modeling Slope Instability as Shear Rupture Propagation in a Saturated Porous Medium

Robert C. Viesca; James R. Rice

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3071-9_18

Modeling Slope Instability as Shear Rupture Propagation in a Saturated Porous Medium

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When a region of intense shear in a slope is much thinner than other relevant geometric lengths, this shear failure may be approximated as localized slip, as in faulting, with strength determined by frictional properties of the sediment and effective stress normal to...

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