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<p>The national highways are always considered as the economic backbone of the country and have often assisted development work all along their routes. The National Highway (NH-1D) is the most strategic and the only all weather surface link between the two ...
Reference: Geomaterials, 2015, 5, 56-67
On 4 September 2010, a surface rupturing earthquake (Mw 7.1) struck the Canterbury Plains region in New Zealand's South Island. The Canterbury Plains is a region of relatively low seismicity, and the structure that ruptured was a previously unmapped fault. ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
The paper presents the kinematics of rock instability of a high limestone promontory, where the Monemvasia historical site is situated, in Peloponnese in Southern Greece. The instability phenomena poses a significant threat to the town located at the base of ...
Filed under: Rock Mechanics -  Rock Falls
Reference: Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1823–1836, 2012
Fibre reinforcement is a technology to improve the strength of soils used as fill in geotechnical structures. The properties of the fibre-reinforced sand are anisotropic because of the distribution of orientation of the fibres, which is characterised by a ...
Reference: Geotechnique 58, No. 6, 489-501, 2008
The Clanwilliam Landslide, April 2nd 1999, occurred on a south facing slope above Clanwilliam Lake, approximately 13 km west of Revelstoke, B.C. The landslide is located near the western margin of the Shuswap Metamorphic Complex and a major tectonic structure ...
Reference: 4th Canadian Conference on Geohazards : From Causes to Management, J. Locat, D. Perret, D. Turmel, D. Demers et S. Leroueil
<p>The In&ouml;n&uuml;-Eskisehir fault system (IEFS) is one of the most important fault systems in Central Anatolia and consists of a series of NW&ndash;SE- to WNW&ndash;ESE-trending fault zones extending from Uludag (Bursa) in the northwest to SultanhanI ...
Reference: Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences (Turkish J. Earth Sci.), Vol. 16, 2007, pp. 471–492. Copyright ©TÜB‹TAK
<p>This paper presents the slope stability and excavatability assessment of rocks at the Kapikaya dam site that contains diabases.</p>
Reference: Engineering Geology 96 (2008) 17-27
The following paper describes the cause, course and result of geological engineering investigations of rock slopes.
Reference: 9:15 - 11:00 HUM-1115. Beginn 2006.10.10.
<p>About 22 mio m<sup>3</sup> of rock fell from a cliff near the village of Randa (10 km north of Zermatt, Switzerland) on 18 April 1991. A second retrogressive rockslide of about 7 miom<sup>3</sup> followed on 9 May 1991. At present, a rock mass situated ...
Reference: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (2003) 3: 423–433
<p>These lecture notes introduces the field of rock slope stability analysis and the purpose such analyses serve in the investigation of potential slope failure mechanisms. Advancements in and the evolution of computer based slope analysis techniques are discoussed, ...
Reference: Earth and Ocean Sciences at UBC