Research Catalog

Title

Progress in landslide science / Kyoji Sassa ... [et al.] (eds.).

Publication

Berlin : Springer, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Sassa, Kyoji.

Description

xxvii, 378 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Subject

• Landslides
• Landslide hazard analysis
• Slopes (Soil mechanics)
• Geology
• Engineering geology
• Regional planning
• Physical geography
• Ecology
• Geosciences
• Applied Geosciences
• Physical Geography
• Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Geoecology/Natural Processes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Landslide science as a scientific discipline -- An overview of landslide problems in the British Isles, with reference to geology, geography and conservation -- Considerations about the mechanics of slow active landslides in clay -- Dynamics of rapid landslides -- Progress in debris flow modeling -- Undrained stress-controlled dynamic-loading ring-shear test to simulate initiation and post-failure motion of landslides -- Shear behavior and shear zone structure of granular materials in naturally drained ring shear tests -- Rockslides and their motion -- Residual shear strength of tertiary mudstone and influencing factors -- On failure of municipal waste landfill -- Experimental study with ring shear apparatus on the May 2004 landslide--debris flow at Bettou-dani Valley, Haku-san Mountain, Japan -- On the pore-pressure generation and movement of rainfall-induced landslides in laboratory flume tests --^
• Ring shear tests on clays of fracture zone landslides and clay mineralogical aspects -- Landslides induced by a combined effect of earthquake and rainfall -- Landslide experiments on artificial and natural slopes -- Enlargement of a failed area along a sliding surface -- Airborne LIDAR data measurement and landform classification mapping in Tomari-no-tai Landslide Area, Shirakami Mountains, Japan -- Integration of remote sensing techniques in different stages of landslide response -- Rock deformation monitoring at cultural heritage sites in Slovakia -- Extracting necessary parameters from real landslide mass for mitigating landslide disaster -- Landslide dams formed by the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture earthquake in Japan -- Shear behavior of clay in slope for pore water pressure increase -- Static and dynamic analyses of slopes by the FEM -- Debris flows in the vicinity of the Machu Picchu Village, Peru --^
• Engineering geology and cultural heritage : the conservation of remaining Bamiyan Buddhas (Central Afghanistan) -- Debris flow hazard defense magnitude assessment with numerical simulation.

ISBN

• 9783540709640
• 3540709649

LCCN

^^2007920433

OCLC

124038266

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library