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Engineering Geology 168 (2014) 120–128 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Engineering Geology journal homepage: /locate/enggeo Slope reliability analysis considering spatially variable shear strength parameters using a non-intrusive stochastic finite element method Shui-Hua Jiang a, Dian-Qing Li a,⁎, Li-Min Zhang b, Chuang-Bing Zhou a a State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Key Laboratory of Rock Mechanics in Hydraulic Structural Engineering (Ministry of Education), Wuhan University, 8 Donghu South Road, Wuhan 430072, PR China b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper proposes a non-intrusive stochastic finite element method for slope reliability analysis considering Received 31 July 2013 spatially variable shear strength parameters. The two-dimensional spatial variation in the shear strength param- Received in revised form 31 October 2013 eters is modeled by cross-correlated non-Gaussian random fields, which are discretized by the Karhunen–Loève Accepted 10 November 2013 expansion. The procedure for a non-intrusive stochastic finite element method is presented. Two illustrative Available online 16 November 2013 examples are investigated to demonstrate the capacity and validity of the proposed method. The proposed