Review of Slope Stability Assessment

The landslide is classified as a major risk and must deserve the maximum attention of researchers, and authorities. In geotechnical engineering, the slope stability analysis is an important problem and, the security of slope is valued by the safety factor with many methods. There exist the analytical methods that give the theoretical bases of the analysis but generally they are limited because of theirs simplified hypothesis. The numerical methods continue to take extent because of their robustness and their capability to couple various effects. This overview is the fruit of a large watch of this thematic and the target is to present a survey of the major works. The book discusses many sides related to the discipline in particular, major events through the word, causes that can be natural or human, analytical approaches as limit equilibrium, limit analysis and the semi-analytical method of slices. In numerical methods, the paper presents continuum and discontinuum approaches, probabilistic, Hybrid and method based on imitation of natural process as neural network and genetic selection. Also, we will discuss the three dimension methods and show various kinds of slopes reinforcement.