Landslides: investigation and mitigation /
This Special Report is a greatly expanded edition of a previous report on landslides (Special Report 176, "Landslides: Analysis and Control") published in 1978. The new report, which has been designed with an even broader international scope, contains comprehensive, practical discussions o...
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Washington:
Editorial National Academy Press,
1996.
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| Painos: | Primera edición. |
| Sarja: | Special report / Transportation Research Board, National Research Council (U.S.).
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Sisällysluettelo:
- Socioeconomic significance of landslides
- Landslide types and processes
- Landslide triggering mechanisms
- Principles of landslide hazard reduction Landslide hazard and risk assessment
- Organization of investigation process
- Slope instability recognition, analysis, and zonation
- Surface observation and geologic mapping
- Subsurface exploration
- Field instrumentation
- Soil strength properties and their measurement
- Soil slope stability analysis
- Rock strength properties and their measurement
- Rock slope stability analysis
- Important considerations in slope design
- Stabilization of soil slopes
- Stabilization of rock slopes
- Residual soils
- Colluvium and talus
- Shales and other degradable materials
- Hydraulic tailings
- Loess
- Soft sensitive clays
- Permafrost.