Brief Literature Review and Classification System of Reliability Methods for Evaluating the Stability of Earth Slopes

Jarosław Przewłócki

doi:10.3390/su13169090

Brief Literature Review and Classification System of Reliability Methods for Evaluating the Stability of Earth Slopes

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The issue of slope stability is one of the most important and yet most difficult geotechnical problems. Assessing slope stability is particularly difficult because of the many uncertainties involved in the process. To take these uncertainties into account, probabilistic methods are used, and the reliability approach is adopted. There are many methods for reliability assessment of earth slope stability. However, there is no system that would organize all of these methods in an unambiguous way. In fact, these methods can be classified in different ways: by assignment to a deterministic classification of methods, by description of uncertainties of soil parameters, by level of reliability according to the theory of reliability, etc. The huge number of articles summarizing the research in this field, but in various “disordered” directions, certainly do not facilitate the understanding or ultimately the practical application of the reliability approach by the engineer. The paper proposes a universal classification system of reliability methods for evaluating the stability of earth slopes. This proposal is preceded by a brief literature review of both historical background and contemporary research on reliability analysis of earth slope stability.

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Jarosław Przewłócki prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: Sustainability no. 13,
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Language:: English
Publication year:: 2021
Bibliographic description:: Przewłócki J.: Brief Literature Review and Classification System of Reliability Methods for Evaluating the Stability of Earth Slopes// Sustainability -Vol. 13,iss. 16 (2021), s.9090-
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/su13169090
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