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Slope Stability

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Slope stability is one of the three classic engineering problems of soil mechanics. Slope stability and landslide treatment are important problems encountered in civil engineering, water conservancy, highway construction, and railway construction.

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  1. School of Aerospace, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shanxi, China

    Mao-Hong Yu

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Yu, MH. (2023). Slope Stability. In: Soil Mechanics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2781-4_9

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