Author:
Md Shah Nazlin An’Nisa,Rafek Abdul Ghani,Serasa Ailie Sofyiana,Harun Wan Salmi Wan,Abdurrahman Muslim,Ern Lee Khai,Huy Nguyen Xuan,Xuan Tran Van,Roslee Rodeano,Zhang Mingwei,Lai Goh Thian
Abstract
Grandview Heights, Paya Terubong is an old apartment building situated on a coarse-grained biotite granitic bedrock hillside. Paya Terubong is a landslide prone area where various landslides have been reported since 1998. The granitic hill has been disturbed during construction of the apartment. Due to the possibility of future landslides, an engineering geological study was conducted to assess the stability of this rock hill beneath this apartment. The scopes of study included discontinuity surveys, geomechanical characterization of the rock mass and slope stability analysis. Based on the results of discontinuity surveys, four major joints sets-were identified and labelled as J1 (195°/62°), J2 (248°/65°), J3 (304°/63°) and J4 (230°/39°). One (1) potential planar failure J2 (248°/65°) and one (1) potential wedge failure J1-J2 intersection (213°/60°) were identified based on kinematic analysis. Dry rock density was from 2.56 g/cm3to 2.61g/cm3. The water content was from 0.14 % to 0.15% with low porosity values from 0.50% to 0.54%. The point load strength index, Is(50)was 6.63 MPa. The Slope Mass Rating (SMR) for was 64 to 79 and classified as class II with the probability of failure of 0.2.