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Publications by [Skirrow R.]

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<p>A histrorically slopw moving embankment fill landslide on Secondary Highway 682:02 accelerated to failure in the spring of 2007. The landslide was translational with the failure plane cocated between 4.5 and 6.5m depth within native lacustrine clay. The ...
Reference: GeoHalifax 2009
Deep seated retrogressive earth slides along the walls of the Little Smoky River valley, in northwestern Alberta, have lead to significant ongoing maintenance on Highway 49 for the past 50 years. While localized, higher velocity zones, have lead to site specific ...
Reference: 4th Canadian Conference on Geohazards : From Causes to Management, J. Locat, D. Perret, D. Turmel, D. Demers et S. Leroueil
<p>Many soil stability problems in geotechnical engineering can be analyzed by means of the classical slip line method - a relatively rigorous (baseline) solution. A slip line solution satisfies the lower bound theorem in plasticity theory, ie it satisfies ...
Reference: GeoEdmonton 2008 A Heritage of Innovation