... warning systems for mitigation purposes. 12 11 2018 26 03 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 failure geotechnical engineering weather Figure 1. Pisciolo slope – 180 d cumulative rainfalls and monitoring data (from Cotecchia et al. (2014...

...Renato Macciotta, PhD, PEng This paper presents a review of historical and latest insights into rock fall hazard temporal variability associated with weather. Reviewed research expands several locations around the world; however, focus has been on the recent advances in western Canada and from...

...Kevin M. Briggs, BEng, EngD; Joel A. Smethurst, BEng, PhD; William Powrie, FREng, MA, MSc, PhD, CEng, FICE; Anthony S. O'Brien, MSc, DIC, CEng, FICE This paper demonstrates the influence of extreme wet winter weather on pore water pressures within clay fill railway embankments, using field...

... embankments groundwater weather Infrastructure embankments and cuttings are used to afford the passage of transport with a minimal need for changes in vertical alignment. In the UK, embankments and cuttings (collectively referred to as earthworks or earth structures) make up about one third...

... of dry weather. The cost to date of the associated remedial works to shallow foundations runs to billions of pounds. The incidence of subsidence claims and claims surges over the previous three decades has been reviewed in relation to rainfall data from which it is concluded that both phenomena...

... about 50 000 m³ of material Residual soils derived from Gombak Norite and colluvium with some recent deposits (Kallang formation) being found at the toe. Failure probably occurred very close to the contact between the residual soil and the underlying weathered norite 1 Depot Road 1978...

...C D F ROGERS; GLENDINNING; S; T E J ROFF © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY SOILS CLAYS LIME MODIFICATION CONSTRUCTION DELAYS WET WEATHER INITIAL CONSUMPTION PLASTICITY ATTERBERG LIMITS TESTS PROPERTIES QUICKLIME CALCIUM OXIDE DEHYDRATION...

...J N KAY; T CHEN; R J MAHARAJ © Thomas Telford and ICE 1996 KYOTO UNIVERSITY RAINFALL LANDSLIDES PLOTTING DATA METHODS ANALYSIS SLOPES FAILURES RAIN WATER ASSESSMENT WARNINGS WEATHER HONG KONG HONG KONG ASIA DISCUSSION ~~ ~~ Rainfall-landslide relationship...