Rainfall thresholds as a landslide indicator for engineered slopes on the Irish Rail network

Rainfall thresholds express the minimum levels of rainfall that need to be reached or exceeded in order for landslides to occur in a particular area. They are a common tool in expressing the temporal portion of landslide hazard analysis. Numerous rainfall thresholds have been developed for different areas worldwide, however none of these are...

System reliability of slopes using multimodal optimisation

Many engineered and natural slopes have complex geometries and are multi-layered. For these slopes traditional stability analyses will tend to predict critical failure surfaces in layers with the lowest mean strength. A move toward probabilistic analyses allows a designer to account for uncertainties with respect to input parameters that...

Landslide susceptibility assessment for engineered slopes using statistical and deterministic approaches

Landslides cause hundreds of deaths and billions euros of damage to infrastructure and the environment each year. In order to predict the locations most susceptible to landslides, the field of landslide hazard assessment has gone through a massive development in the last twenty years by introducing a wealth of statistical and geotechnical...