Landslide triggering experiment in a steep forested slope in Switzerland

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: The Academia and Practice of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1698-1701

  Springman, Sarah ^a   Kienzler, Peter ^a   Casini, Francesca ^a   Askarinejad, Amin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Characterisation; Field test; Groundwater flow; Infiltration; Slope instability; Triggering; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; DYE TRACER; EXTREME RAINFALL; FIELD TEST; FOREST ENGINEERING; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; IN-SITU PROBING; LABORATORY TEST; MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION; SLOPE INSTABILITY; SWITZERLAND; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; TRIGGERING; UNDISTURBED SAMPLE;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; LANDSLIDES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84865198995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-031-5-1698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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