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This chapter deals with rock slope stability, a subject that has shown remarkable development in the last twenty years relative to methods for estimating shear strength of rock discontihuities and methods of analysis. This theme is presented in the literature by Hoek (1998); Hoek and Bray (1981); Wyllie and Norrich (1996a, 1996b); Norrich and Wyllie (1996); Giani (1992) among others. This chapter presents a summary of recent techniques, without dealing with the mathematics of analysis methods. Instead, it suggests the use of widely available commercial software.
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Ortigao, J.A.R. (2004). Rock Slope Stability. In: Handbook of Slope Stabilisation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07680-4_6
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