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Assignment CH 3 and CH 4 Submission Day 24/06/2021: 1.plot The Variation of Active and Passive Lateral Pressures

The document discusses an assignment covering slope failures in soils, including common types of slope failure, factors that provoke failures, infinite slope failures, methods to analyze slope stability, assumptions of analysis methods, how seepage affects stability, and plotting active and passive lateral pressures with depth for a soil profile.

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Assignment CH 3 and CH 4 Submission Day 24/06/2021: 1.plot The Variation of Active and Passive Lateral Pressures

The document discusses an assignment covering slope failures in soils, including common types of slope failure, factors that provoke failures, infinite slope failures, methods to analyze slope stability, assumptions of analysis methods, how seepage affects stability, and plotting active and passive lateral pressures with depth for a soil profile.

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Assignment CH‐3 and CH‐4 

Submission Day 24/06/2021 


17 June 2021 04:02 PM 

Part I 
1. What types of slope failure are common in soils?  
2. What factors provoke slope failures? 
3. What is an infinite slope failure?  
4. What methods of analysis are used to estimate the
factor of safety  of a slope? 

5. What are the assumptions of the various methods


of analysis? 6. How does seepage affect the
stability of slopes 
Part II 
1.Plot the variation of active and passive lateral pressures
with depth  for the soil profile shown in Figure 

2. 
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3. 

N.B megagram to kilo newton(Mg) = 9.80665 kilo newton 


Assighment 2 Page 2

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