Software Design for Direct Determination of the Required Support system for Prevention of Planar Failure; Case Study: Lead and Zinc Mine of Angoran, Zanjan

Considerable attention must be paid to protection and maintenance of engineering structures such as dams, due to their vital role in provision of the necessary water for drinking and agriculture, and mines for the supply of industrial materials. The various software designed for the study of static stability of such structures, up to now, are not featured to determine the required support for prevention of planar failure. In such software, the necessary reinforcement to avoid slope failure is selected through trial and error, and examination of different supports. Herein, the provided software package, entitled "Slope Stability Analysis" software, is the first package capable of direct determination of the necessary support for unstable zones, using the presented equations. To make verifications, the studies on the northern slope of Angoran mine showed that the values obtained from Slope Stability Analysis software are in very good agreement with numerical results of UDEC and 3DEC software