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

Figure 4

Convergence study on the effect of mesh size on FS and FM for FLAC/Slope. (a) FS = 1.22, 810 zones; (b) FS = 1.21, 2290 zones; (c) FS = 1.21, 3720 zones; (d) FS = 1.20, 8000 zones; (e) FS = 1.20, 15158 zones; (f) FS = 1.20, 19675 zones.

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