Influence of soil permeability on rainfall-induced flowslides in laboratory flume tests

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1128-1136

  Wang, Fawu ^a   Shibata, Hiroki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flowslides; Flume test; Mobility; Permeability; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN;

FLOWSLIDES; FLUME TEST;

SOILS;

FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN; SOILS;

FLUME EXPERIMENT; MOBILITY; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SLIDING; SLOPE;

EID: 39449102417     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T07-042     Document Type: Article

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