Sarah M. Springman
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Hydro-mechanical analysis of a surficial landslide triggered by artificial rainfall
The Ruedlingen field experiment
This paper interprets the hydromechanical behaviour of a steep, forested, instrumented slope during an artificial rainfall event, which triggered a shallow slope failure 15 h after rainfall initiation. The soil's mechanical response has been simulated by coupled hydro-mechanic ...
We present an updated Lagrangian continuum particle method based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) for simulating debris flow on an instrumented test slope. The site is a deforested area near the village of Ruedlingen, a community in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switze ...
In assessing the impact of climate change on infrastructure, it is essential to consider the interactions between the atmosphere, vegetation and the near-surface soil. This paper presents an overview of these processes, focusing on recent advances from the literature and those ...
Precursors of instability in a natural slope due to rainfall
A full-scale experiment
A full-scale landslide-triggering experiment was conducted on a natural sandy slope subjected to an artificial rainfall event, which resulted in mobilisation of 130 m3 of soil mass. Novel slope deformation sensors (SDSs) were applied to monitor the subsurface pre-fa ...
Infiltration-induced Slope Instability
A multi-scale approach
Fast landslides induced by rainfall impose considerable damage on infrastructure and cause major casualties worldwide. Static liquefaction is one of the triggering mechanisms mentioned frequently in the literature as a cause of this type of landslide. The scaling laws required ...
The hydrological state of a hillslope prior to a sprinkling-induced shallow landslide was monitored using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) along a 47 m long transect, supplemented by local time-domain reflectometry (TDR) and tensiometer measurements. The spatial and tem ...
Rain-induced slope instability is a significant natural hazard in Switzerland, Slovenia and elsewhere in Europe. This contribution was prepared especially for the 12th Šuklje Symposium, and recognises that landslides occur both in mountain regions as well as in lowland regions ...