• Umi Salma

ABSTRACT: Kashmir is surrounded by mountains on all sides, hence there are many roads constructed along the slopes. These slopes are prone to failures triggered by certain factors like rainfall, steep slope, etc. The slope failures cause road blockades, sometimes pose danger to road users also. In order to prevent such failures, we will evaluate a certain slope situated on Bjibehara-Semithan road, which is a link road connecting Bjibehara town with Semithan Village. Since this is a small road used as a link road, therefore no analysis has been done till now on the said road. We chose a certain slope at a distance of 2.5km from Bjibehara town at RD 700m. The purpose of this study was to evaluate its safety so that it poses no threat to the road users. The soil data obtained from DST was put into GEO-5 software using two different analysis methods. The different methods used were Janbu’s method of analysis and Fellinius method of analysis.We got the required Factor’s of safety (FOS) as output, which gave the safety status of the given slope. FOS was found to be ranging from 1.62 to 1.68 in unsaturated conditions in both the methods and from 1.48 to 1.54 in saturated conditions. Hence some safety measures were given at the end to increase the slope stability.

Shear strength parameters, Factor of safety, GEO-5 Software.

"Analysis of slope on Bjibehara-Semithan Road using GEO-5 Software ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.762-766, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N03.pdf

"Analysis of slope on Bjibehara-Semithan Road using GEO-5 Software ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp762-766, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907N03.pdf