Effect of hydraulic properties of soil on rainfall-induced slope failure

Engineering Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 135-143

  Rahimi, Arezoo ^a   Rahardjo, Harianto ^a   Leong, Eng Choon ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Factor of safety; Permeability function; Rainfall induced slope failure; SWCC fitting parameters

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF PERMEABILITY; FACTOR OF SAFETY; FITTING PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS; RESIDUAL SOIL; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL SLOPES; SOIL-WATER CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; TEMPORAL FREQUENCY; TROPICAL REGIONS;

CURVE FITTING; HYDRAULICS; RAIN; SAFETY FACTOR; SLOPE STABILITY;

SOILS;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PERMEABILITY; RAINFALL; RESIDUAL SOIL; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER;

EID: 77955176877     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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