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

Figure 3

Convergence study on the effect of mesh size on FS and FM for Phase² 6.0. (a) FS = 1.19, 423 elements; (b) FS = 1.19, 1170 elements; (c) FS = 1.18, 2718 elements; (d) FS = 1.189, 4545 elements; (e) FS = 1.18, 11535 elements; (f) FS = 1.18, 21860 elements.

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