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Numerical Simulation of a Road Cut Slope along SH-72, Mahableshwar, Maharashtra, India

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DOI: 10.22606/gr.2017.24001

Author(s)

  • Ashutosh Kainthola*
    KainGeotech Pvt. Ltd., Dehradun-248001, India
  • Dhananjai Verma

    Geological Survey of India, Gandhinagar, 382010, India
  • T N Singh

    Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 400076, India

Abstract

Hill stations which are favoured tourist destinations are mostly accessible by road excavated on the hill slopes. These roads cut slopes pose a grave threat to life and local economics in case of a slope failure. Proper study is called for to mitigate this danger of these slope failures which are especially rampant during the rainy season. In the present study a road cut slope along SH-72 near Mahableshwar, Maharashtra, India, has been numerically simulated using finite element and finite difference techniques to appraise their stability under dry and saturated conditions.

Keywords

Slope stability, FOS, numerical analysis, mahableshwar.

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