When a global stability analysis is required by the wall designer, then the owner should contract with a geotechnical engineer for overall site stability.
- If walls have slopes below or above
- Walls built in sites with clays, silts, poorly graded sands, expansive clays
- For walls where more than 50% of the Internal Compound Stability (ICS) slip arcs fall at the back of the wall design envelope when ICS is run in the Allan Block AB Walls Design Software.
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Global stability analysis should be run
for a variety of conditions including:
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