INDIAN

N INSTITUT
TE OF TEC
CHNOLOG
GY MADRA
AS, CHENN
NAI
De
epartment o
of Civil Eng
gineering
CE 3350
3
Geote
echnical Eng
gineering
As
ssignment # 5: Stabiility of Slopes, Sheet Piile Walls an
nd Braced Cuts
C
Note
e: Make su
uitable assu
umptions wh
herever neccessary.
1. (a)
( State thee assumptionn on the sidee forces on slices in thee following methods of slices: (i) Ordinary
O
method of slices,
s
(ii) Modified
M
Bish
hop's methodd, and (iii) Spencer's
S
meethod.
( The moree rigorous liimit equilibrium analysiss methods, such
(b)
s
as the m
modified Bisshop's and Sppencer's
methods, prroduce factoors of safetyy that are wiithin about 5%
5 of the "trrue" value. How
H does thhis error
compare too the uncertaainty in the soil
s propertiees (c', ', and
a ) and thhe uncertaintty in the dessign soil
profile? In
n light of thesse other sourrces of uncerrtainty, is a 5% error ttolerable? Exxplain.
(cc) Use Swed
dish slip circcle method to
o compute thhe factor of safety
s
of a sllope section shown in Fiig. 1.
(d) Preparre a spreadssheet to impplement
the moodified Bish
hop's method and
use it too compute the
t factor of safety
(FS) forr the failuree surface shhown in
Fig. 1.

Fig. 1
2. A granular soil
s has sat = 19 kN/m3, ' = 35. A slope has to be madee of this matterial. If a factor
fa
of
safety of 1.3
3 is needed against
a
slopee failure, dettermine the safe
s angle off the slope (aa) when the slope is
dry
d or subm
merged witho
out seepage, (b) if seepagge occurs at and parallell to the surfaace of the sloope and
(c) if seepag
ge occurs parrallel to the slope with tthe water tabble at a depthh of 1.5 m, what
w is the factor
f
of
safety availaable on a slipp plane paralllel to the grround surfacee at a depth of 4 m ? Asssume = 288.
3. Figure
F
2 shoows the crosss-section of a cutting
in
i a homo
ogeneous, saturated
s
clay
c
soil
inclined
i
at a slope of 2H
H: 1V, with a height
of
o 8 m. Bullk unit weigght of the soil is 18
3
kN/m
k
and cu = 27 kN/m
m2 (u = 0).. What is
the
t factor off safety agaiinst immediaate shear
failure alon
ng the slip circle
c
show
wn in the
figure, (a) ignoring
i
thee tension crrack, (b)
allowing
a
forr the tension crack butt without
Fig. 2
water
w
and (cc) allowing for
f the tensiion crack
filled with water?
w
d
seepagee affect thee stability of
o
4. (a) How does
slopes? (b
b) What iss the effect of rapiid
drawdown on slope staability? (c) Figure
F
3 givees
t cross-secction of an embankmen
e
details of the
t.
The soil haas the follow
wing propertties: ' = 35,
3
c' = 10 kN//m2, = 16 kN/m
k
. For the
t slip circlle
shown, dettermine the factor of safety for thhe
following values
v
of ru: 0.2, 0.4 and
d 0.6. Plot thhe
variation off FS with ru.
Fig. 3

5. (a)
( An embaankment is made
m
of soil having
h
c' = 10 kN/m2, ' = 23 and = 19 kN/m
m3. The embaankment
is of 9 m height and hass a slope of 30.
3 The aveerage pore pressure
p
rattio (ru) may be
b taken as 0.30
0
for
the
t conditioon of steady seepage. Ussing the Fellenius methood of slices,, determine the factor of
o safety
against sheaar failure, fo
or a slip cirrcle passing through thee toe. Locatee the centree of rotationn by the
Fellenius
F
meethod. (b) Using the Bish
hop's simplified method
d of slices, deetermine thee factor of saafety.
6. (a)
( How is simplified
s
Bishop's methhod differennt from the conventional
c
l Swedish cirrcle methodd? Is it a
'total stress' or an 'effeective stress' analysis? Does
D
it give a higher or a lower factor of saafety as
ntional metho
od?
compared too the conven
(b) Describbe the naturre of variattion of defflection and
d moment ffor anchoredd sheet pile walls
considering
c
free-earth annd fixed-earrth support methods.
m
(c) In what respects
r
does the design of bracingss in cuts varyy from that oof a retaining wall?
7. Using thee fixed-earth suppoort method
d, 8. An anchored
a
sheeet pile bulkhead is shhown in
calculate
c
thee depth of embedment of the sheeet
Fig. 5.
5 Let L1 = 4 m, L2 = 9 m, l1 = 2 m, = 17
pile
p
and thhe pull in the
t
anchor rod for thhe
kN/m
m3, sat = 19
1 kN/m3 and
a
' = 34,
3
(a)
anchored
a
bu
ulkhead systeem shown inn Fig. 4.
Calcu
ulate the theeoretical vallue of the depth
d
of
embeedment (D)), (b) Drraw the pressure
p
distribbution diaggram and (c)
(
Determiine the
anchoor force per unit length of
o the wall. Use the
free earth-support
e
t method.

F 4
Fig.
F 5
Fig.
Given: = 17
1 kN/m3, c = 0 and
9. An anchoreed sheet pilee bulkhead is shown inn 10. Referr to Fig. 7. G
Fig.
F 6. Let L1 = 2 m, L2 = 6 m, l1 = 1 m, = 166
= 35 and center to center spacing of
o struts
3
3
kN/m
k
, sat = 18.86 kN//m , ' = 322 and c = 277
p
in thhe plan = 3 m. Draw the earth pressure
2
kN/m
k
. (a) Determine the theoretical depth oof
enveelope and deetermine the strut loads at
a levels
embedment
e
A, B and C.
(D) and (bb) Calculatee the anchoor
force per un
nit length off the sheet pile wall. Use
the
t free earthh support method.

Fig. 6
Fig. 7