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EXPERIMENT:-3

AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT:-


To figure out how the FOS changes based on things like the overall slope angle,
bench height, bench width, etc. And making a graph from them.

SOFTWARE USED:-
ROCKSCIENCE Slide 2
BACKGROUND:-
Slope Stability: Slope stability is the stability of the benches of the working face or
the overburden dump lying at a certain angle to the horizontal. The slope is stable when the
forces that are pushing against it, like cohesion, are stronger than the forces that are pulling
it down, like water, earthquakes, and many other things. If this doesn't happen, the slope
fails. Different geotechnical parameters and a good amount of engineering judgment guide
how slope stability is dealt with in real life. Planning and putting in place a good slope
monitoring program can help find the weak sections of slopes, predict instability, come up
with ways to stop it, and even mine in unstable conditions.

The goal of slope stability is to develop and build both natural and man-made slopes, as
well as to understand how slopes change over time.
To find out how stable slopes are in different situations.
To figure out how likely it is that both natural and man-made slopes will fall apart.
To figure out how stable the slope is and what went wrong.
To figure out the effects of different factors, such as environmental, technical, and geo-
mining conditions.
To redo the failed slopes and make sure they are properly planned and designed for
prevention and thorough exposure to the best ways to fix them.
To look into how seismic loads affect slopes and embankments.

Failure in Earth and Rock mass


1.Plane Failure
2. Wedge Failure
3. Circular Failure
4. Toppling Failure
5. Rock fall

Circular Failure:
Methodology:Most of the time, slopes are more likely to fail in this way because the
geometric conditions that caused it are usually met.
Plane failure can happen under the following geometric conditions:
Most circular failures happen on weak slopes of rock or soil.
This kind of failure doesn't always happen in a perfect circle. Usually, the failure surface is
curved in some way.
Circular shear failures depend on the size and mechanical properties of the soil or rock
particles.

Slope failure: The circular part of the break surface meets the slope at the toe of the slope
in this type of failure. This is because when the incline point is high and the dirt near the toe
is of high quality.
Toe failure: The circular part of the break surface meets the slope at the toe in this type of
failure.
Base failure: In this kind of failure, the circular part of the failure goes under the toe and
into the bottom of the slope. This happens when the edge of the slope is low and the dirt
under the base is softer and more flexible than the dirt on top of the base.

Limit Equilibrium Method


In slope engineering, it is the most widely used and accepted tool for design.
Sliding happens when a limit equilibrium is reached, which means that the forces pushing
and pulling are equal.
These methods are the most widely accepted and commonly used ways to design, and they
let you figure out how well a slope will work even if all of the other factors change.
The main idea behind the limit equilibrium method is to find a level of stress along the
critical surface that puts the free body in static equilibrium between the slip surface and the
free ground surface.
This kind of stress is called "mobilized stress," but it might not be the real stress along this
surface.
Then, this level of stress is compared to the available strength, which is the amount of
stress needed to break along the slip surface.

PROCEDURE :-
1. First from the given information the coordinates are found out.
2. Then the edge location are named as ABCDEFGHIJK and the coordinate values are filled in a
excel sheet.
Then Slide 2 was opened, and the geological profile was chosen by right-clicking in the menu
bar.

Then, the Boundary menu was chosen from the menu bar, and then the external boundaries
menu.

All of the coordinates and the boundary are put in the blue box on the bottom left.

Clicking on the material boundaries given by Mohr Columb criteria with parameters
Cohesion, Angle of friction, and Normal reaction.

Then I went to surface, then to surface option, and finally to grid Analysis.

Then we chose "Auto grid," which made a 20x20 grid.

After that, we went to Analysis and then to =>project setting =>method. For force balance,
we chose bishop's simplified, spencer's simplified, crops of engineering, and Janbu's
simplified.

Then, after calculating and figuring out what the input parameter meant, we found the
slope's minimum factor of safety.

By changing the input parameter and continuing with the same process, the relationship
between the factor of safety and the different input parameters was recorded, and the
behavior was shown on a graph.
Input parameter:-

OUTPUT AND RESULT:-

 The graph came to like that because With the increase in angle more weight component increases
and less resisting component decreases which results in a decrease in the factor of safety.
 As the bench height increases the overal slope angle also increases which
results in decrease in FOS

 When the Tw increases there is a point come when the slip circle completely
pass through the toe and the crest point hence resulting in a decrease in FOS and
after increasing more and more the slip circle remains the same and does not
affect slip circle and minimum FOS
 with an increase in Bench width the overall slope angle increase increases and
leads to an increase in FOS.

CONCLUSION :-
From the above experiment, we learned how the FOS changed depending
on things like the bench angle, bench height, bench width, and top width.
We also looked at what could be done to increase the FOS of a slope.

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