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The evaluation of the stability of a slope, of an embankment or a dyke, is an important problem of applied soil mechanics. In the previous chapter this problem has been considered for a vertical slope in a purely cohesive material (\(c>0\), \(\phi =0\)). As a preparation for the general case, which will be considered in the next chapter, this chapter will present some solutions for slopes of infinite extent, in a homogeneous frictional material, without cohesion (\(c=0\), \(\phi >0\)).
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Verruijt, A. (2018). Stability of Infinite Slope. In: An Introduction to Soil Mechanics. Theory and Applications of Transport in Porous Media, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61185-3_44
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