Mobile Application Development to Compute Stability of Rock Slope

Volume 5 Issue 1 January - June 2018

Research Paper

Mobile Application Development to Compute Stability of Rock Slope

Rakesh Kumar Dutta*, Vishwas N. Khatri**, Surya Pratap Singh***

* Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India.

** Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

*** M.Tech Graduate, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India.

Dutta. R. K., Khatri. V. N and Singh. S. P. (2018). Mobile Application Development to Compute Stability of Rock Slope. i-manager’s Journal on Mobile Applications and Technologies, 5(1), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.26634/jmt.5.1.14631

Abstract

In this paper, a mobile application to check the stability of rock slope has been developed. To assess the stability of slope, the Factor of Safety (FoS) was calculated by assuming plane wedge failure. Accordingly, the various input parameters comprised of shear strength parameter and unit weight of rock, geometrical parameters of slope and fault plane, surcharge on the slope, seismic acceleration coefficient corresponding to given location and stabilizing force due to inclusion of rock bolt, if any, were considered. The application was developed using Java programming and android studio. The proposed use of applications was demonstrated with the use of screenshots of different steps. Further, the application was validated with the help of an example from literature. The developed application was user-friendly and can conveniently handle any field situation. Hence it was anticipated that the application will be useful for the field engineers as it minimizes the tedious work of design and referring to tables and codes.