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Slope Failures in Over-Consolidated Fissured Clays in Southwestern Iowa
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Physical Modelling of Instability in Granular Soils and Tsunami Hazards Associated with Coastal Slope Failures
Coastal mass failures such as submarine and subaerial landslides have the potential to create significant tsunami hazards. As an inherently coupled solid-fluid interaction problem, accurate assessment of these hazards requires an understanding of the triggering mechanisms of failure to predict the …
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Meaning, measurement, and field application of fully softened shear strength of stiff clays and clay shales
… shear strength in the failure of natural and cut slopes is important for design and stability evaluation. The intact shear strength is rarely available at the time of first-time slope failures. It is generally accepted that only residual shear strength is available for the reactivated landslides. …
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Slope Stability of the Hunter Creek Formation: A Geotechnical Investigation Near Mogul, Nevada
… deltaic, and lacustrine facies. Numerous slope failures have occurred in the unit mostly along streams, canals, and the Truckee River. Field mapping showed that most of the slope failures occur south of Interstate 80 between Verdi and northwest Reno, Nevada.Four landslides were studied and …
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Role of Vegetation and Environmental Characteristics on Slope Stability in Northwest Arkansas
<p>Slope failure continues to pose risks to society because knowledge of environmental factors and their interactions are unclear and possibly misunderstood. This misunderstanding leads to generalizations about slope failure susceptibility mapping, despite knowing that slope failures are likely the …
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Stability analysis of anchored rock slopes against plane failure subjected to surcharge and seismic loads
The stability analysis of rock slopes has been a challenging task for engineers because the rock mass constituting the slope often has discontinuities in various forms, resulting in different types of slope failures. The plane failure is one of the rock slope failures observed in field situations …
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Soil Slope Failure Investigation Management Systems
Highway slopes are exposed to environmental and climatic conditions, such as deforestation, cycles of freezing and thawing weather, heavy storms etc. Over time these climatic conditions can influence slope stability in combination with other factors such as geological formations, slope angle and …
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Fault segmentation, fault linkage, and hazards along the Sevier fault, southwestern Utah
… induced 14 landslides and similar future slope failures are likely.
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Revisiting Rock Mass Indices: Improving and Applying the Measurement of Erodibility
… be used to predict such varied properties as the slope of a rock mass, the geometry of bedrock channels, and the likelihood and type of potential slope failures. Yet, these systems are limited by shortcomings such as subjectivity, limited calibration, and failing to produce reasonable predictions …
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Cross-border risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslides in Central Asia
… quantify the hazard and the negative impact of slope failures across the Central Asian countries. Furthermore, the increase of population and the expansion of urban settlements towards landslide-prone slopes, exacerbate negative consequences associated to slope failures. Especially in less …
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Movement of landslides in stiff clays and clay shales
The rate of slope movement has major socio-economic implications on the rapid global urbanization, with estimated annual fatalities resulting from landslides near 5000 and economic losses amounting to over $15 Billion U.S. dollars. Yet, the stability of natural and man-made slopes is generally …
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Edifice Stability Assessment of Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
… National Park (LVNP), California. Large scale slope failures have been identified in other areas of LVNP, but not at Lassen Peak, which may be prone to major instabilities, as eruptions within the past 100 years and its relatively active tectonic setting may have weakened its dome and edifice. …
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FIVE YEARS AFTER THE OCTOBER 8, 2005 KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE: ASSESSING POST-SEISMIC LANDSLIDING PROCESSES BETWEEN 2005 AND 2010
… was prepared, which included studies of slope failures at 164 locations. Repeat photography was undertaken in 2006 at these 164 locations, and repeated in 2007 at 68 locations. Surprisingly, and after two heavy monsoon seasons, only a slight change in landslide extent had occurred. It was …
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FIVE YEARS AFTER THE OCTOBER 8, 2005 KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE: ASSESSING POST-SEISMIC LANDSLIDING PROCESSES BETWEEN 2005 AND 2010
… was prepared, which included studies of slope failures at 164 locations. Repeat photography was undertaken in 2006 at these 164 locations, and repeated in 2007 at 68 locations. Surprisingly, and after two heavy monsoon seasons, only a slight change in landslide extent had occurred. It was …
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Distribution, causes and nature of natural landslides in Devon and Cornwall
… The South West accounts for 1,700 of the listed slope failures. Problems have arisen because in many areas the database merely serves as an archive of previous studies and is not a true representation of landsliding in an area. The aim of this research was to identify landslide environments …
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Pre-Historic Landslides on the Southeast Flank of the Uinta Mountains, Utah: Character and Causes of Slope Failure
… the deposits are an accumulation of successive slope failures that have continually eroded the landscape over time. Many landslides in the area appear to be inactive and dormant but slopes may continue to fail particularly if landslides are disturbed. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was …
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The effects of grass and rainfall pattern on the matric suction of acidic soil slopes
Among the mechanism that leads to slope failures are that the matric suction starts to decrease when water infiltrates the soil. Although many studies have been carried out to improve stability of slope, most studies often ignore the influence of matric suction induced by vegetation. Grass can be …
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Landslide susceptibility mapping through enhanced dynamic slope stability analysis using earth observing satellite measurements
… in mountainous regions. For most types of slope failure, soil moisture plays a critical role because increased pore water pressure reduces the soil strength and increases stress. The combined effect of soil moisture in unsaturated soil layers and pore water pressure in saturated soil layers …
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