ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the development history of slope engineering in railway and highway construction in China, and the achievements in research of slope problems, such as slope deformation and failure mechanisms, stability analysis and slope evaluation methods, slope deformation monitoring and forecast, as well as slope control techniques. Slope stabilization has been one of most major problems encountered in railway and highway construction in mountain areas of China since 1950’s, with the rapidly development of the national economy. At early stage of the People’s Republic of China, occurrence of slope failure was quite frequent in railway construction because of lack of experience and techniques for slope stabilization, resulting in many disasters. Geomechanics investigation analysis method of rock mass structural planes of rock slopes is the basic method for determining slope structure. For controlling rock slope disasters deformation range, dimensions and types of slopes should be determined and the effects caused by engineering action should be forecasted.
