The main purpose of the study was to prepare landslide susceptibility maps of the five sample sites of Western Nepal (Palpa/Gulmi, Palpa, Baglung/Myagdi, Parbat and Kaski) and validate the result by model replication. A number of qualitative and quantitative ...

The objectives of this study are to investigate and evaluate the benefits of inclusion of geogrids in two types of geosynthetic reinforced soil/aggregate structures—reinforced soil foundations (RSF) and reinforced base aggregate in flexible pavements, ...

This report compares two different dam types (Roller Compacted Concrete Dam and Concrete Face Rock-fill Dam) in order to help the decision making when choosing what dam type to build in Panama, where Vattenfall is involved in a joint venture to build a dam ...

<p>A report for Knowledge guided empirical prediction of landslide hazard</p>

<p>One of the most common ways to stabilize the slope is to use the row of drilled shaft. The goal of this investigation is to introduce applicable methodology to calculate the factors of safety and force, on the shaft, in the static condition. By using the ...

<p>In the last two decades, Brillouin distributed fiber-optic sensing has became a widely accepted, mature technology. On the other hand, geotechnical monitoring applications of this technology are still rare, as the fragile fiberoptic and the harsh soil environment ...

<p>The stability analysis of rock slopes has been a challenging task for engineers <br />because the rock mass constituting the slope often has discontinuities in various <br />forms, resulting in different types of slope failures. The plane failure is one ...

Upstream tailings dams may experience slope stability problems when the rate of raising is too fast. Tailings consolidate slowly due to low hydraulic conductivity. The excess pore pressures can build up due to accelerated rate of raising. The cumulative increase ...

The impact of earthquakes, due to ground shaking, which affects the whole tunnel length from ovaling of the tunnel cross section, is investigated in this thesis. The influence of rock mass quality Q and the tunnel dimension is also studied. Finally, an approach ...

<p>This report is dealing with time dependent settlements calculated with numerical methods and subsequent comparisons with field measurements. The numerical computations in this report have been performed using Plaxis, a two-dimensional numerical program ...