Stability Analysis of Mineral Structures using FLAC Software

Abstract

The safety factor for slopes (FS) is traditionally determined using two-dimensional limit equilibrium (LEM) methods, however, the safety factor of a slope can also be calculated by FLAC software with the technique of reducing soil shear strength in the time stages until the slope fails. In this presentation, we first describe the numerical methods of stability analysis, finite difference method and FLAC software, and then we analyze the static stability using FLAC software.