Rock Slope Engineering

Rock Slope Stability Assessment of Limestone Hills in Northern Kinta Valley, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

“…The results were interpreted to identify types of failure mode based on Hoek and Bray (1981). According to them, the possible major types of block failures on slopes and structural geology conditionsare plane failure, wedge failure, toppling failure and circular failure.The joint roughness coefficient values were used for the determination of peak friction angle as recommended by Ghani Rafek et al (2012).…”

“…It was reported that the cohesive strength along joints and fractures had decreased due to chemical weathering which possibly caused the rockfall. With regard to these issues, this research was conducted to investigate the failure modes of eight limestone hills in the Kinta Valley by using kinematic analysis as recommended by Hoek and Bray (1981). The examples of rockfall events in the Kinta Valley that had caused a number of fatality and damages to vehicles and civil structures are shown in Table 1.…”

Rock Slope Stability Assessment of Limestone Hills, Southern Kinta Valley, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

“…The results were interpreted to identify the types of failure mode based on classification of failure modes [20]. The peak friction angle for each slope was determined by using the polynomial equation developed by a researcher [25].…”

“…Rock falls from Gunung Pondok, Perak were also reported in a research paper [19]. About these issues, this research was conducted to investigate the failure modes of 7 slopes of limestone hills in the Kinta Valley by using kinematic analysis as recommended by a researcher [20]. The recorded rockfall events occurrences in the Kinta Valley and the consequences are shown in Table 1.…”

Seismic stability analysis of rock slopes by yield design theory using the generalized Hoek-Brown criterion

“…To avoid this, many researchers have used other methods, particularly the limit analysis method [1][2][3][4][5]. In addition, several works have shown the weakness of the Mohr-Coulomb criterion to adequately describe the resistance of rocks [6][7][8]. A variety of nonlinear criteria were then proposed in the literature [9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”