In its 2D configuration, CLARA-W can be applied to a range of routine problems, familiar to users of other slope stability programs. The 3D configuration is suitable for the following types of problems:

• Slopes curved or discontinuous in plan: ends and  corners of embankments, narrow excavations, earth dam abutments and spillways, bridge approach fills, conical heaps, shafts, pits, ridges and re-entrants.
• Narrow failure surfaces: spoon-shaped slides, failures situated between lateral constraints.
• Slopes with significant lateral variation in steepness, failure surface geometry, stratigraphy, strength properties, piezometric conditions, loads, or all of the above.
• Complex wedge geometries with or without anchor support.
• Slope failures under concentrated loading situated on the slope face or at the crest.

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