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- Unique subject tackled in very few other publications
- State-of-the-art perspective of landslides in sensitive clays and their consequences
- Consideration on the source, nature, development and characterization of sensitive clays
- Engineering contemplation, modelling and slope stability assessment in sensitive clays
- Hazard and risk management consideration in sensitive clay terrain
Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 36)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sensitive Clay: Source, Nature and Development
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Landslide Characterization
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Integrated Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Investigations
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About this book
Landslides in sensitive clays represent a major hazard in the northern countries of the world such as Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and in the US state of Alaska. Past and recent examples of catastrophic landslides at e.g. Saint-Jean-Vianney in 1971, Rissa in 1979, Finneidfjord in 1996 and Kattmarka in 2009 have illustrated the great mobility of the remolded sensitive clays and their hazardous retrogressive potential. These events call for a better understanding of landslide in sensitive clay terrain to assist authorities with state-of-the-art hazard assessment methods, risk management schemes, mitigation measures and planning. During the last decades the elevated awareness regarding slope movement in sensitive clays has led to major advances in mapping techniques and development of highly sophisticated geotechnical and geophysical investigation tools. Great advances in numerical techniques dealing with progressive failure and landslide kinematic have also lead to increase understanding and predictability of landslides in sensitive clays and their consequences. This volume consists of the latest scientific research by international experts dealing with geological, geotechnical and geophysical aspects of slope failure in sensitive clays and focuses on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by landslides in such brittle materials.
Editors and Affiliations
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Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Trondheim, Norway
Jean-Sébastien L'Heureux
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Department of Civil Engineering and Water Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Ariane Locat, Serge Leroueil
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Service de la géotechnique et de la géologie, Ministère des Transports du Québec, Quebec, Canada
Denis Demers
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Department of Geology adn Geological Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Jacques Locat
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landslides in Sensitive Clays
Book Subtitle: From Geosciences to Risk Management
Editors: Jean-Sébastien L'Heureux, Ariane Locat, Serge Leroueil, Denis Demers, Jacques Locat
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7079-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7078-2Published: 27 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0106-6Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7079-9Published: 17 September 2013
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 418
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Geology