Soil water content and suction monitoring in model slopes for shallow flowslides early warning applications

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 35, Issue 3-5, 2010, Pages 127-136

  Greco, R ^a   Guida, A ^a   Damiano, E ^a   Olivares, L ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early warning; Flowslides; Physical modelling; Pyroclastic granular soils; TDR

Indexed keywords

EARLY WARNING; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLOWSLIDES; GRANULAR SOILS; HYDRAULIC PROCESS; INFILTRATION PROCESS; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; OPTICAL LASERS; PHYSICAL MODELLING; RAINFALL INFILTRATION; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE SURFACES; SOIL SUCTION; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STEEP SLOPE; UNSATURATED CONDITION; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

EXPERIMENTS; MONITORING; SEEPAGE; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL MOISTURE; UNDERWATER SOILS; VOLCANOES; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

COLLAPSE; DEBRIS FLOW; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLUME EXPERIMENT; INFILTRATION; LANDSLIDE; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; SUCTION; TENSIOMETER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; NAPLES; NAPOLI [CAMPANIA];

EID: 77953028159     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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