Designer Caters for Stability of minor Slips

Question

Soil nails are designed for stabilization of the major slips. How the designer caters for the stability of minor slips?

Answer 1

There are some methods to treat minor slips:

a) Adopting small diameter size bars at the closer spacing;

b) Provision of short soil nails with long soil nails;

c) Setting up of the steel wire meshes in-between the soil nails; and

d) Installing tie beams at the identical horizontal levels.