Seismic Behavior of Clay Embankment

Chapter 1 includes background and importance to consider this as a research topic. Chapter 2 describes mainly literature review and the state of art methodologies available to carry out this research work. The literature review includes various methods available for slope stability analysis including force based and displacement based approaches and sliding block theories. In Chapter 3 describes mainly objective and scope of this study. Chapter 4 describes analytical procedure to estimate FOS, yield acceleration and permanent slope displacement and its influence using a typical example of slope. The various important results found has been critically analyzed and discussed in details. Chapter 5 describes mainly experimental parts conducted in the laboratory after developing a scale model using pure clay and manually, loads have been applied systematically by fixing on the tripod stand to the model embankment and load time history has been recorded through sensors which has fitted with the steel tank and displacement has been measured subsequently after each manual impact on it. Chapter 6 describes the results and discussions found based on the present study.