2013 H. Bolton Seed Lecture: Steve Wright: Slope Stability Computations

The 2013 H. Bolton Seed Lecture was delivered in February 2013 in San Diego, CA by Stephen Wright of the University of Texas at Austin. Steve's lecture was titled "Slope Stability Computations."

The H. Bolton Seed Medal is awarded for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and/or practice in geotechnical engineering. This award was established by the Geotechnical Engineering Division (now the Geo-Institute) of the Society in memory of Professor H. Bolton Seed, Hon.M.ASCE. It was officially instituted by action of the Board of Direction on October 23, 1993 and was funded by friends and colleagues of Professor Seed and the U.S. National Society Endowment Fund.

Professor Seed made many significant contributions to teaching, research and the practice of geotechnical engineering especially as related to geotechnical earthquake engineering and embankment dams. Dr. Seed, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, was recognized with many awards, including ASCE's Norman Medal (twice), Croes Medal (three times), Middlebrooks Award (five times), the Terzaghi Award and the Terzaghi Lectureship. In 1985, he was the first recipient of the Nash Medal of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). In addition to his numerous technical contributions, Professor Seed devoted considerable time and effort to the profession through the activities of the Geo-Institute of ASCE and through ISSMGE. He served as Permanent Secretary, U.S. National Society (USNS) of the ISSMGE for more than 10 years.

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[Martin-iwll]

In example 3, the final slip surface of the slope W is still different from the slip surface from UTEXAS, even though the FoS value is the same

[HamzahAlHashemi]

It's really outstanding online education organization, I'd like to thank all of you really. Passionate Geotechnical Engineer

[jombsgeoscientique]

simple and comprehensive... this is a class lecture from an expert in his field.... thank your very much for sharing this

[nicholaskauffman]

Worthwhile lecture for opening our eyes to some of the nuances associated with slope stability modeling.

[zhaocheng]

Good presentation. But I would say that all these pitfalls are never problems if switching to more advanced slope stability analyzing method - strength reduction approach - using a FE or FD platform.

[spidermancrawlingtheweb]

this is such a quality lecture, thanks for uploading this!

[aleksanderurbanski]

instead this "old fashioned" method use FEM modeling of with C-fi reduction algorithm. It always leads you to univocal solution of any stability problem, together with influence of water. No need ti divagate "circes" or other shape of slip surface. Available for example in ZSoil code (since 1985)