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Directional Analysis of Slope Stability Using a Real Example

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Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence (ICSI 2015)

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PSO is a powerful but rarely used tool in slope stability analysis until very recently. Despite its simplicity, PSO can be integrated with existing program effortlessly and improves the performance and accuracy of the resulting analysis. In this study, a real landslide site was selected as an example. The problem slope was represented as a digital elevation model using laser scanning, and the model was cut in parallel lines 45 degrees to the North by a custom program. The resulting 19 profiles were inputted to the STABL program for stability analysis using a PSO scripting program. The results showed that the computed factor of safety varied from profile to profile, but PSO improved the results consistently for all profiles. A comparison was made with the previous study in which the slope was cut in the South-North direction. Both studies showed that the directional analysis of slope stability is an important topic for future research.

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  1. Department of Construction and Spatial Design, Tungnan University, New Taipei, Taiwan

    Zhe-Ping Shen

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Zhe-Ping Shen & Walter W. Chen

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  1. Peking University, Beijing, China

    Ying Tan

  2. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

    Yuhui Shi

  3. Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Fernando Buarque

  4. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, Mexico

    Alexander Gelbukh

  5. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

    Swagatam Das

  6. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Andries Engelbrecht

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Shen, ZP., Chen, W.W. (2015). Directional Analysis of Slope Stability Using a Real Example. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Buarque, F., Gelbukh, A., Das, S., Engelbrecht, A. (eds) Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence. ICSI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20466-6_19

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