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More About This Title Soil Strength and Slope Stability
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Stephen G. Wright is Brunswick-Abernathy Regents Professor in Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. Examples and Causes of Slope Failure.
Chapter 3. Soil Mechanics Principles.
Chapter 4. Stability Conditions for analyses.
Chapter 5. Shear Strengths of Soil and Municipal Solid Waste.
Chapter 6. Mechanics of Limit Equilibrium Procedures.
Chapter 7. Methods of Analyzing Slope Stability.
Chapter 8. Reinforced Slopes and Embankments.
Chapter 9. Analyses for Rapid Drawdown.
Chapter 10. Seismic Slope Stability.
Chapter 11. Analyses of Embankments with Partial Consolidation of Weak Foundations.
Chapter 12. Analyses to Back-Calculate Strengths.
Chapter 13. Factors of Safety and Reliability.
Chapter 14. Important Details of Stability Analyses.
Chapter 15. Presenting Results of Stability Evaluations.
Chapter 16. Slope Stabilization and Repair.
Appendix: Slope Stability Charts.
References.
Index.
