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— Infinite Slope Stability

Factor of safety against translational sliding of a planar (infinite) slope in a c′–φ′ soil, for a dry slope and for full seepage parallel to the slope with the water table at the ground surface.

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History

Sources:
[1] A. W. Skempton and F. A. DeLory, "Stability of natural slopes in London clay," in Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, London, U.K., 1957, vol. 2, pp. 378–381.
[2] D. W. Taylor, Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 1948.
[3] J. M. Duncan, S. G. Wright, and T. L. Brandon, Soil Strength and Slope Stability, 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2014.

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