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The shallow slope stability of expansive soil is one of the important research topics in geotechnical engineering. However, there are no suitable methods for analyzing the shallow slope stability of expansive soil. Hence, this paper proposes a new method based on a coupling effect of saturation and expansion for analyzing the shallow slope stability. Especially, the coupling effect of saturation and expansion is introduced in detail, and used to further study the shallow slope stability. With the described coupling effect and the infinite slope, a formula calculating the overlying load of the shallow soil is established by the symmetrical limited expansion along the slope and perpendicular to the plane. Moreover, a calculation model for the factor of safety is presented according to the limit equilibrium method. The experiments are designed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed analysis method for the shallow stability of newly excavated and newly filled expansive soil slopes by rainfall. In the present study, the moisture content and shear strength of the shallow expansive soil slope are investigated, and the factor of safety is calculated. The results also show that the initial moisture content has an important influence on the shallow stability in terms of the two expansive slopes previously mentioned.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym14050898","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,28]],"date-time":"2022-04-28T02:20:20Z","timestamp":1651112420000},"page":"898","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A New Analysis Method Based on the Coupling Effect of Saturation and Expansion for the Shallow Stability of Expansive Soil Slopes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1088-6541","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Communications Vocational and Technical College, Nanning 530023, China"}]},{"given":"Qiuyan","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center of Geotechnical and Structural Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China"}]},{"given":"Junhui","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Guangxi Beitou Transportation Maintenance Technology Group Co., Ltd., Nanning 530029, China"}]},{"given":"Guoxiong","family":"Mei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Structural Safety of Ministry of Education, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Special Geological Highway Safety Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"3812","article-title":"Engineering cases of swelling rock and soil landslide treatment in Guangxi","volume":"32","author":"Fan","year":"2013","journal-title":"Chin. 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