Mechanisms of failure on terraced slopes: The Valtellina case (northern Italy)

Landslides

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-54

  Camera, Corrado A S ^a,b   Apuani, Tiziana ^a   Masetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Dry stone walls; Failure mechanisms; Numerical modeling; Unsaturated saturated soils; Valtellina

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODELS; SOILS;

FAILURE MECHANISM; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUND WATER MOVEMENT; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; MECHANISMS OF FORMATION; PERCHED GROUNDWATER TABLES; SATURATED SOILS; VALTELLINA;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MASS MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATURATED MEDIUM; SLOPE FAILURE; SOIL SURFACE; STABILITY ANALYSIS; VALLEY;

ITALY; LOMBARDY; VALTELLINA;

EID: 84893764079     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-012-0371-3     Document Type: Article

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