Failure Mechanism and Factor of Safety for Spatially Variable Undrained Soil Slope

Figure 10

The comparison of FS between FEM and other methods: (a) FEM vs. FDM; (b) FEM vs. Bishop; (c) FEM vs. M-P; (d) FEM vs. Spencer. Note that r is the correlation coefficient of the linear regression analysis, and the bold solid line is a 45-degree line.

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