Variational displacement method for geosynthetically reinforced slope stability analysis II. Global stability

摘要

This paper presents the global stability analysis of geosynthetically reinforced slopes, It is a development of the French "displacement method" (gourc et al., 1986) for geosynthetically reinforced slope stability analysis. The global stability analysis requires the determination of the reinforcement tensions, which is presented in a companion paper (Lemonnier t al., 1998). In this paper, the variational limit equilibrium method, formulated by Baker and Garber (1977) in the case of unreinforced slopes, is applied to the case of reinforced slopes.