- C01 I Calculate The Factor Of Safety For A Slip Surface Of An Embankment Dam Which Has Been Divided Into 8 Slices The Ch 1 (96.18 KiB) Viewed 19 times
C01 i.Calculate the factor of safety for a slip surface of an embankment dam which has been divided into 8 slices the characteristics (angle between the vertical and normal drawn at the centre of the bottom of the slice under consideration a, arc length, and area of slice) of which are as follows: Slice a (degree) 54.5 Arc length (m) Area of slice (m²) 1 6.70 12.26 2 41 3.80 19.51 3 31 3.50 21.37 22 3.35 20.90 13 3.05 19.97 3.05 16.72 3.05 12.08 4.30 6.69 4 5 6 5 7 -3.5 8 -13 Saturated weight of soil Submerged weight of soil Cohesion Angle of internal friction =21.0 kN/m³ =11.0 kN/m³ =24.5 kN/m² =35⁰