Lulu Zhang, Jinhui Li, Xu Li, Jie Zhang, Hong Zhu ... 398 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (June, 2016) ... Language: English - ASIN: B01HELDDME by Amazon ..
.Rainfall-induced landslides are common around the world. With global
climate change, their frequency is increasing and the consequences are
becoming greater. Previous studies assess them mostly from the
perspective of a single discipline—correlating landslides with
rainstorms, geomorphology and hydrology in order to establish a
threshold prediction value for rainfall-induced landslides; analyzing
the slope’s stability using a geomechanical approach; or assessing the
risk from field records. Rainfall Induced Soil Slope Failure: Stability Analysis and Probabilistic Assessment integrates
probabilistic approaches with the geotechnical modeling of slope
failures under rainfall conditions with unsaturated soil. It covers
theoretical models of rainfall infiltration and stability analysis,
reliability analysis based on coupled hydro-mechanical modelling,
stability of slopes with cracks, gravels and spatial heterogenous soils,
and probabilistic model calibration based on measurement. It focuses on
the uncertainties involved with rainfall-induced landslides and
presents state-of-the art techniques and methods which characterize the
uncertainties and quantify the probabilities and risk of
rainfall-induced landslide hazards. Additionally, the authors cover: The failure mechanisms of rainfall-induced slope failure - Commonly used infiltration and stability methods - The infiltration and stability of natural soil slopes with cracks and colluvium materials - Stability evaluation methods based on probabilistic approaches -The effect of spatial variability on unsaturated soil slopes and more.