Abstract
A new reliability design procedure for slope stability is proposed which can explicitly take into account not only variation of geotechnical data but also the number of samples and the relative location of the samples to the structure. The method is based on Kriging originally developed by Matheron. A case study is carried out taking an embankment on soft clay as an example. The case study clearly illustrated the capability of the proposed model to reflect the factors mentioned above on the calculated failure probability of the slope.
