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Geotechnical investigation on slopes failures along the Mughal road from Bafliaz to Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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In this paper, the results of geotechnical investigations on the slope stability condition carried along the historical Mughal road (an important economic corridor of the state) from Bafliaz (Jammu province) to Shopian (Kashmir province) linking NH144 and NH444 respectively is presented. The basic rock mass rating (RMRb), slope mass rating (SMR) techniques (both discrete and continuous functions) with kinematics analysis was applied to analyse the rock mass and slope conditions at 20 selected sites. The RMRb results obtained reveal the slopes can be categorized into very good (5%), good (55%) and fair (40%) whereas SMR results reveal that the slopes are partially stable (50%), unstable (30%) and completely unstable (20%) with probable planar failure mode (20%), toppling failure mode (27%) and wedge failure mode (53%). The discrete and continuous SMR index reveals maximum variation in the end results within an average difference of 4.7 ±6. The kinematic analysis results support inter dependency of RMRb, SMR and critical joint-slope orientation relationships.

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    Rameshwar Sangra, Yudhbir Singh, G. M. Bhat, S. K. Pandita & Gulzar Hussain

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Sangra, R., Singh, Y., Bhat, G.M. et al. Geotechnical investigation on slopes failures along the Mughal road from Bafliaz to Shopian, Jammu and Kashmir, India. J Geol Soc India 90, 616–622 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-017-0760-2

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