Downslope volume enlargement of a debris slide-debris flow in the 1999 Hiroshima, Japan, rainstorm

Engineering Geology

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 309-330

  Wang, Gonghui ^a   Sassa, Kyoji ^a   Fukuoka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Debris flow mobilization; Granular soils; Landslide mechanism; Liquefaction; Rainstorm; Ring shear test

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; LANDSLIDES; RAIN; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

SOIL MASS;

DEBRIS;

DEBRIS FLOW; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SLOPE STABILITY; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

HIROSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 0038137510     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(02)00289-2     Document Type: Article

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