Report 430 Whole life cost model for earthworks slopes

Publication Year

2000

Document Status

Current

Abstract

The problems of minor slope instabilities on the motorway and trunk road network are mainly confined to overconsolidated clays and to particularly high sections of embankments or cuttings, but the ongoing cost of repairs to the slope failures constitutes a significant amount of maintenance expenditure. The problem of balancing construction and maintenance expenditure on earthworks slopes was addressed by the development of a whole life cost model and computer programme. The model and computer programme are discussed in this report.

Author

Reid, J. M. and Clark, G. T.

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