Arellano, Tatum, Stark, Horvath, Leshchinsky 1 A Framework for the Design Guideline for EPS-Block Geofoam in Slope Stabilization and Repair David Arellano, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering The University of Memphis 104 Engineering Science Building Memphis, Tennessee 31852-3180 Tel: (901) 678-3272 E-mail: darellan@memphis.edu (Corresponding Author) John Benjamin Tatum, Geotechnical Engineer U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis, District 167 N. Main St. Memphis, TN 38103 Tel: (901) 544-4216 E-mail: John.B.Tatum @usace.army.mil Timothy D. Stark, Ph.D., P.E., Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 205 N. Mathews MC-250 Urbana, Illinois 61801 Tel: (217) 333-7394 E-mail: tstark@uiuc.edu John S. Horvath, Ph.D., P.E., Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Manhattan College Bronx, New York 10471 Tel: (718) 826-7177 E-mail: john.horvath@manhattan.edu Dov Leshchinsky, Ph.D., Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 Tel: (302) 831-2446 E-mail: dov@UDel.edu TRB Paper 10-2629: Submitted for Publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Word Count: (5,911+6 figures@ 250 words=7,411) March 14, 2010