ABSTRACT
Indeed, those hypotheses turned out to be truth in most of the geotechnical problems analysed, since, in such cases, relatively small deformation are enough to cause collapse or lost in functionality of those structures. However, there are some situations where these hypotheses are not suitable. In such cases, it is necessary to consider the geometric non-linearity of the problem. In order to illustrate the difference in results, Hanssen (2010) performed slope stability analyses of an embankment considering the classical solution for small deformations and the Updated Lagrangian Method (UL) for large deformations. The results are shown in Figure 1.
