Effects of degree of saturation on shallow landslides triggered by rainfall

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1285-1295

  Tsai, Tung Lin ^a   Chen, Hsin Fa ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Forestry Bureau   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Degree of saturation unit weight; Shallow landslides; Unsaturated shear strength

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDES; RAIN; SHEAR FLOW; SUPERSATURATION;

DEGREE OF SATURATIONS; INFINITE SLOPE STABILITIES; PHYSICAL BASED MODELING; PHYSICAL-BASED MODELS; RAINFALL INFILTRATION; SHALLOW LANDSLIDE; UNIT WEIGHT; UNSATURATED SHEAR STRENGTH;

SLOPE PROTECTION;

INFILTRATION; LANDSLIDE; RAINFALL; SATURATED MEDIUM; SHEAR STRENGTH; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 77955136045     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0116-3     Document Type: Article

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