Landslides and Engineered Slopes. From the Past to the Future, Two Volumes + CD-ROM

VOLUME 1 Keynote lectures * Landslides: Seeing the ground * Limit equilibrium and finite element analysis - A perspective of recent advances * Improving the interpretation of slope monitoring and early warning data through better understanding of complex deep-seated landslide failure mechanisms * Effects of earthquakes on slopes * Monitoring and modeling of slope response to climate changes * Soil nailing and subsurface drainage for slope stabilization Special lectures * Loess in China and landslides in loess slopes * Advances in landslide continuum dynamic modelling * Deformation and failure mechanisms of loose and dense fill slopes with and without soil nails * Capturing landslide dynamics and hydrologic triggers using near-real-time monitoring * The effects of earthquake on landslides - A case study of Chi-Chi earthquake, 1999 * The role of suction and its changes on stability of steep slopes in unsaturated granular soils * Prediction of landslide movements caused by climate change: Modelling the behavior of a mean elevation large slide in the Alps and assessing its uncertainties Geology, geotechnical properties and site characterization * Geotechnical appraisal of the Sonapur landslide area, Jainita hills, Meghalya, India * The viscous component in slow moving landslides: A practical case * The systematic landslide investigation programme in Hong Kong * General digital camera-based experiments for large-scale landslide physical model measurement * Shear strength of boundaries between soils and rocks in Korea * Cracks in saturated sand * Some geomorphological techniques used in constraining the likelihood of landsliding - Selected Australian examples * Rock failures in karst * Geotechnical study at Sirwani landslide site, India * Inferences from morphological differences in deposits of similar large rockslides * Movements of a large urban slope in the town of Santa Cruz do Sul (RGS), Brazil * Geotechnical analysis of a complex slope movement in sedimentary successions of the southern Apennines (Molise, Italy) * Application of surface wave and micro-tremor survey in landslide investigation in the Three Gorges reservoir area * A case study for the landslide-induced catastrophic hazards in Taiwan Tuchang Tribute * Pir3D, an easy to use three dimensional block fall simulator * Characterization of the fracture pattern on cliff sites combining geophysical imaging and laser scanning * In situ characterization of the geomechanical properties of an unstable fractured rock slope * Properties of peat relating to instability of blanket bogs * Stability problems in slopes of Arenos reservoir (Castellon, Spain) * The 22 August, 2006, anomalous rock fall along the Gran Sasso NE wall (Central Apennines, Italy) * New formulae to assess soil permeability through laboratory identification and flow coming out of vertical drains * Structure-controlled earth flows in the Campania Apennines (Southern Italy) * Geotechnical and mineralogical characterization of fine grained soils affected by soil slips * Vulnerability of structures impacted by debris flow * Engineering geological study on a large-scale toppling deformation at Xiaowan Hydropower Station * Characterization of the Avignonet landslide (French Alps) with seismic techniques * Deformation characteristics and treatment measures of spillway slope at a reservoir in China * Sliding in weathered banded gneiss due to gullying in southern Brazil * Experimental and three-dimensional numerical investigations of the impact of dry granular flow on a barrier * Temporal survey of fluids by 2D electrical tomography: The "Vence" landslide observatory site (Alpes-Maritimes, SE France) * Characteristics of landslides related to various rock types in Korea * Two approaches to identifying the slip zones of loess landslides and related issues * Testing study on the strength and deformation characteristics of soil in loess landslides * Failure mechanism of slipping zone soil of the Qiangjiangping landslide in the Three Gorges reservoir area: A study based on Dead Load test * Post-failure movements of a large slow rock slide in schist near Pos Selim, Malaysia * Characteristics of rock failure in metamorphic rock areas, Korea * Shape and size effects of gravel grains on the shear behavior of sandy soils * Nonlinear failure envelope of a nonplastic compacted silty-sand * An investigation of a structurally-controlled rock cut instability at a metro station shaft in Esfahan, Iran * Yield acceleration of soil slopes with nonlinear strength envelope * Evaluation of rockfall hazards along part of Karaj-Chaloos road, Iran * Coupled effect of pluviometric regime and soil properties on hydraulic boundary conditions and on slope stability * Mechanical characters of relaxing zone of slopes due to excavation * Deformation characteristics and stability evaluation of Ganhaizi landslide in the Dadu River * Landslide-prone towns in Daunia (Italy): PS interferometry-based investigation * Basic types and active characteristics of loess landslide in China * Investigation of a landslide using borehole shear test and ring shear test * The importance of geological and geotechnical investigations of landslides occurred at dam reservoirs: Case studies from the Havuzlu and Demirkent landslides (Artvin Dam, Turkey) * An innovative approach combining geological mapping and drilling process monitoring for quantitative assessment of natural terrain hazards * Types of cutslope failures along Shiyan-Manchuanguan expressway through the Liangyun fracture, Hubei Province Advances in analytical methods, modeling and prediction of slope behavior * Probability limit equilibrium and distinct element modeling of jointed rock slope at northern abutment of Gotvand dam, Iran * Rock block sliding analysis of a highway slope in Portugal * Contribution to the safety evaluation of slopes using long term observation results * Delimitation of safety zones by finite element analysis * Laboratory and numerical modelling of the lateral spreading process involving the Orvieto hill (Italy) * Albano Lake coastal rock slide (Roma, Italy): Geological constraints and numerical modelling * Superposition principle for stability analysis of reinforced slopes and its FE validation * Soil suction modelling in weathered gneiss affected by landsliding * Modelling the transient groundwater regime for the displacements analysis of slow-moving active landslides * Numerical modelling of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils in catastrophic landslides * Some notes on the upper-bound and Sarma's methods with inclined slices for stability analysis * Slope stability analysis using graphic acquisitions and spreadsheets * Efficient evaluation of slope stability reliability subject to soil parameter uncertainties using importance sampling * Prediction of the flow-like movements of Tessina landslide by SPH model * Applications of the strength reduction finite element method to a gravity dam stability analysis * Study on deformation parameter reduction technique for the strength reduction finite element method * Stability and movement analyses of slopes using Generalized Limit Equilibrium Method * Long-term deformation prediction of Tianhuangpin "3.29" landslide based on neural network with annealing simulation method * New models linking piezometric levels and displacements in a landslide *3D slope stability analysis of Rockfill dam in U-shape valley *3-D finite element analysis of landslide prevention piles * Integrated intelligent method for displacement predication of landslide * A new approach to in situ characterization of rock slope discontinuities: the "High-Pulse Poroelasticity Protocol" (HPPP) * Fuzzy prediction and analysis of landslides * LPC methodology as a tool to create real time cartography of the gravitational hazard: Application in the municipality of Menton (Maritimes Alps, France) * Back-analyses of a large-scale slope model failure caused by a sudden drawdown of water level * Effect of Guangxi Longtan reservoir on the stability of landslide at Badu station of Nankun railway * Application of SSRM in stability analysis of subgrade embankments over sloped weak ground with FLAC3D * Strength parameters from back analysis of slips in two-layer slopes * Development characteristics and mechanism of the Lianhua Temple landslide, Huaxian county, China * Modeling landslide triggering in layered soils * Numerical modeling of debris flow kinematics using discrete element method combined with GIS * Three dimensional simulation of landslide motion and the determination of geotechnical parameters * Stability analysis and stabilized works of dip bedded rock slopes * A GIS-supported logistic regression model applied in regional slope stability evaluation * The stability analysis for FaNai landslide in Lubuge hydropower station * Numerical analysis of slope stability influenced by varying water conditions in the reservoir area of the Three Gorges, China * A numerical study of interaction between rock bolt and rock mass * Macroscopic effects of rock slopes before and after grouting of joint planes * Two-and three-dimensional analysis of a fossil landslide with FLAC * Application of the coupled thin-layer element in forecasting the behaviors of landslide with weak intercalated layers * Numerical modelling of a rock avalanche laboratory experiment in the framework of the "Rockslidetec" alpine project * Three-dimensional slope stability analysis by means of limit equilibrium method * Embankment basal stability analysis using shear strength reduction finite element method * Back analysis based on SOM-RST system * Temporal prediction in landslides - Understanding the Saito effect *3D landslide run out modelling using the Particle Flow Code PFC3D * Double-row anti-sliding piles: Analysis based on a spatial framework structure * Centrifuge modeling of rainfall-induced failure process of soil slope * A GIS-based method for predicting the location, magnitude and occurrence time of landslides using a three-dimensional deterministic model * Application of a rockfall hazard rating system in rock slope cuts along a mountain road of South Western Saudi Arabia * Model tests of collapse of unsaturated slopes in rainfall * Calibration of a rheological model for debris flow hazard mitigation in the Campania region * Optical fiber sensing technology used in landslide monitoring * Finite element analysis of flow failure of Tailings dam and embankments * Landslide model test to investigate the spreading range of debris according to rainfall intensity * Occurrence mechanism of rockslide at the time of the Chuetsu earthquake in 2004 - A dynamic response analysis by using a simple cyclic loading model * Analysis for progressive failure of the Senise landslide based on Cosserat continuum model * Large-scale deformation of the La Clapiere landslide and its numerical modeling (S.-E. de Tinee, France) * A novel complex valued neuron model for landslide assessment * Prediction of slope behavior for deforming railway embankments * Finite element simulation for the collapse of a dip slope during 2004 Mid Niigata Prefecture earthquake in Japan * Sensitivity of stability parameters for soil slopes: An analysis based on the shear strength reduction method * Back analysis of unsaturated parameters and numerical seepage simulation of the Shuping landslide in Three Gorges reservoir area * Slope failure criterion: A modification based on strength reduction technique * Unsaturated seepage analysis for a reservoir landslide during impounding * A simple compaction control method for slope construction * Numerical analysis of soil-arch effect of anti-slide piles * Determination of the critical slip surface based on stress distributions from FEM * Effect of drainage facilities using 3D seepage flow analysis reflecting hydro-geological structure with aspect cracks in a landslide - Example of analysis in OODAIRA Landslide area * Back analysis of soil parameters: A case study on monitored displacement of foundation pits *3D finite element analysis on progressive failure of slope due to rainfall * Block-group method for rock slope stability analysis * Quantitative study on the classification of unloading zones of high slope * Investigations on the accuracy of the simplified Bishop method Author index VOLUME 2 Landslide mechanism, monitoring and warning * GIS-based landslide susceptibility mapping in the Three Gorges area - Comparisons of mapping results obtained by two methods: Analytical hierarchy process and logistic regression * Importance of study of creep sliding mechanism to prevention and treatment of reservoir landslide * Stability prediction of landsides before and after impoundment for Lijiaxia hydropower station * The technical concept within the Integrative Landslide Early Warning System (ILEWS) * The Aknes rockslide: Monitoring, threshold values and early-warning * DInSAR techniques for monitoring slow-moving landslides * Multitemporal DInSAR data and damages to facilities as indicators for the activity of slow-moving landslides * The Serre La Voute Landslide (North-West Italy): Results from ten years of monitoring * Onset of rockslide by the peak-residual strength drop * Analysis of mechanism of the K31 landslide of Changzhi-Jincheng express highway * A plane-torsion rockslide with a locked flank: A case study * Monitoring of natural thermal strains using hollow cylinder strain cells: The case of a large rock slope prone to rockfalls * Landslide hazards mapping and permafrost slope InSAR monitoring, Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada * Advanced monitoring criteria for precocious alerting of rainfall-induced flowslides * Investigation of slope failure mechanisms caused by discontinuous large scale geological structures at the Cadia Hill Open Pit * Two approaches for public landslide awareness in the United States - U.S. geological survey warning systems and a landslide film documentary * Formation and mechanical analysis of Tiantai landslide of Xuanhan county, Sichuan province * Development of wireless sensor node for landslide detection * Redox condition and landslide development * Prepa displacement mechanism and its treatment measures for Hancheng landslide * Investigation of the stability of colluvial landslide deposits * Choice of surveying methods for landslides monitoring * No. 1 landslide on the eastern approach road to ErLang Mountain tunnel: Inference factors and controlling measures * Estimation of landslide load on multi-tier pile constructions with the help of a combined method * The use of PSInSAR(TM) data in landslide detection and monitoring: The example of the Piemonte region (Northern Italy) * Fill slopes: Stability assessment based on monitoring during both heavy rainfall and earthquake motion * The mechanism of movement of mud flows in loess soils, successful and unsuccessful cases of forecast * Influence of fine soil particles on excess of basal pore-fluid pressure generation in granular mass flows * An early warning system to predict flowslides in pyroclastic deposits * Monitoring and modeling of slope movement on rock cliffs prior to failure * Active tectonic control of a large landslide: Results from Panagopoula landslide multi parametric analyses * A warning system using chemical sensors and telecommunication technologies to protect railroad operation from landslide disaster * Distributive monitoring of the slope engineering * Observational method in the design of high cutting slope around bridge * Ultrasonic monitoring of lab-scaled underwater landslides * Interaction between landslides and man-made works * Desiccation fissuring induced failure mechanisms for clay levees * Stability analysis by strength reduction finite element method and monitoring of unstable slope during reinforcement * Displacement monitoring on Shuping landslide in the Three Gorges Dam Reservoir area, China from August 2004 to July 2007 * Deformation mechanism and prevention measure for strongly expansive soft-rock slope in the Yanji basin * Twenty years of safety monitoring for the landslide of Hancheng PowerStation * A time-spatial deterministic approach to assessment of rainfall-induced shallow landslide * Introduction of web-based remote-monitoring system and its application to landslide disaster prevention * Deformation mechanism for the front slope of the left bank deposits in Xiluodu hydro-electrical power station, China * Monitoring of soil nailed slopes and dams using innovative technologies * Application of multi-antenna GPS technique in the stability monitoring of roadside slopes * Influences of earthquake motion on slopes in a hilly area during the Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake, 2004 * The 1783 Scilla rock-avalanche (Calabria, southern Italy) * Self-excitation process due to local seismic amplification and earthquake-induced reactivations of large landslides * Geological constraints to the urban shape evolution of Ariano Irpino (Avellino province, Italy) * Landslide zones and their relation with seismoactive fault systems in Azerbaijan, Iran * Ground movements caused by lateral spread during an earthquake *2-D analysis of slope stability of an infinite slope during earthquake * High-cutting slopes at Qingshuichuan electric power plant in the North of Shaanxi: Deformation and failure modes and treatment scheme * GIS-based real time prediction of Arias intensity and earthquake-induced landslide hazards in Alborz and Central Iran * Geomorphology of old earthquake-induced landslides in southeastern Sicily * Coseismic movement of an active landslide resulting from the Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake, Japan * Characteristics of large rock avalanches triggered by the November 3, 2002 Denali Fault earthquake, Alaska, USA * FE analysis of performance of the Lower and Upper San Fernando Dams under the 1971 San Fernando earthquake * Reduction of the stability of pre-existing landslides during earthquake * Probabilistic hazard mapping of earthquake-induced landslides * Investigation on stability of landfill slopes in seismically active regions in Central Asia * Mechanism for loess seismic landslides in Northwest China * Evaluation of the landslide potential in Chahr Chay dam reservoir slopes * Effect of well pumping on groundwater level and slope stability in the Taiwan * Woo-Wan-Chai landslide area * Case study: Embankment failure of Cable-Ski Lake development in Cairns * Analysis method for slope stability under rainfall action * Hydrological modelling of the Vallcebre landslide * Landslides in stiff clay slopes along the Adriatic coast (Central Italy) * Research on the effect of atomized rain on underground water distribution in Dayantang landslide * Landslide hydrogeological susceptibility in the Crati Valley (Italy) * Sustainable landslide stabilisation using deep wells installed with siphon drains and electro-pneumatic pumps * Biological and engineering impacts of climate on slopes - learning from full-scale * Some attributes of road-slope failure caused by typhoons * A small rock avalanche in toppled schist, Lake Wanaka, New Zealand * NRCS-based groundwater level analysis of sloping ground * A numerical case study on load developments along soil nails installed in cut slope subjected to high groundwater table * Landslides at active construction sites in Hong Kong * Landslide "Granice" in Zagreb (Croatia) * Improvement of subsurface drainage provisions for recompacted soil fill slopes in Hong Kong * Biotechnical slope stabilization and using Spyder Hoe to control steep slope failure * Rapid landslides threatening roads: Three case histories of risk mitigation in the Umbria region of Central Italy * Assessment of the slope stabilisation measures at the Cadas Pangeran road section, Sumedang, West Java * Analysis of control factors on landslides in the Taiwan area * Inclined free face riverbank collapse by river scouring * Drainage control and slope stability at an open pit mine: A GIS-based hydrological modeling * Assessment of regional rainfall-induced landslides using 3S-based hydro-geological model * Investigation of a landslide along a natural gas pipeline (Karacabey-Turkey) * Influence of extreme rainfall on the stability of spoil heaps * Behavior of expansive soil slope reinforced with geo-grids * Geotechnical properties for a rainstorm-triggered landslide in Kisawa village, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan * Yigong rock avalanche-flow landslide event, Tibet, China * Key issues of emergency measures and comprehensive remediation projects to control the Danba landslide, Sichuan province, China * Enhanced slope seepage resulting from localized torrential precipitation during aflood discharge event at the Nuozhadu hydroelectric station * An issue in conventional approach for drainage design on slopes in mountainous regions * Analysis of geo-hazards caused by climate changes Slope stabilization and protection * Back experience of deep drainage for landslide stabilization through lines of siphon drains and electro-pneumatics drains: A French railway slope stabilization example * Experimental geo-synthetic-reinforced segmental wall as bridge abutment * Rock slope stability analysis for a slope in the vicinity of take-off yard of Karun-3 Dam * Stabilization of a large paleo-landslide reactivated because of the works to install a new ski lift in Formigal skiing resort * A case study on rainfall infiltration effect on the stability of two slopes * Consolidation mechanism of fully grouted anchor bolts * Stability analysis for cut slopes reinforced by an earth retention system by considering the reinforcement stages * Landslide stabilization for residential development * Influence of load transfer on anchored slope stability * Review of slope surface drainage with reference to landslide studies and current practice in Hong Kong * Analysis of dynamic stability about prestressed anchor retaining structure * Safety analysis of high engineering slopes along the west approach road of ZheGu mountain tunnel * Landslide stabilizing piles: A design based on the results of slope failure back analysis * Landslides on the left abutment and engineering measures for Manwan Hydropower Project * Factors resulting in the instability of a 57.5 m high cut slope * Orthogonal analysis and applications on anchorage parameters of rock slopes * Waste rock dump slope stability for a gold mine in California * Properties of the high rock slope of Hongjiadu Hydropower Project and its engineering treatment measures * Typical harbor bank slopes in the Three Gorges reservoir: Landslide and collapse and their stability control * Weighting predisposing factors for shallow slides susceptibility assessment on the regional scale * Analyses of mechanism of landslides in Tongchuan-Huangling highway * Treatments of Loess-Bedrock landslides at Chuankou in Tongchuan-Huangling expressway * Types, characteristics and application conditions of anti-slide retaining structures * The stabilization of the huge alluvial deposit on the left bank and the high rock slope on the right bank of the XiaoWan Hydropower Project Risk assessment and management * Malaysian National Slope Master Plan - Challenges to producing an effective plan * Spatial landslide risk assessment in Guantanamo province, Cuba * Landslide risk management: Experiences in the metropolitan area * of Recife - Pernambuco, Brazil * Societal risk due to landslides in the Campania region (Southern Italy) * Landslide risk in the San Francisco Bay region * A first attempt to extend a subaerial landslide susceptibility analysis to submerged slopes: The case of the Albano Lake (Rome, Italy) * Landslide susceptibility zonation of the Qazvin-Rasht-Anzali railway track, North Iran * Assessment of landslide hazard of a cut-slope using linear regression analysis * Global monitoring strategy applied to ground failure hazards * Regional slope stability zonation based on the factor overlapping method * Landslide hazard and risk assessment in the areas of dams and reservoirs of Serbia * The evaluation of failure probability for rock slope based on fuzzy set theory and Monte Carlo simulation * Macro-zoning of areas susceptible to flowslide in pyroclastic soils in the Campania region * Zoning methods for landslide hazard degree * A proposal for a reliability rating system for fluvial flood defence embankments in the United Kingdom * Simplified risk analysis chart to prevent slope failure of highway embankment on soft Bangkok clays * Determining landslide susceptibility along natural gas pipelines in Northwest Oregon, USA * Landslide susceptibility assessment using fuzzy logic * Prediction of the spatiotemporal distribution of landslides: Integrated landslide susceptibility * zoning techniques and real-time satellite rainfall * Entropy based typical landslide hazard degree assessment in Three Gorges * The optimal hydraulic cross-section design of the "Trapezoid-V" shaped drainage canal of debris flow * Practice of establishing China's Geo-Hazard Survey Information System * A XML-supported database for landslides and engineered slopes related to China's water resources development Landslide and engineered slopes in China * Failure and treatment technique of a canal in expansive soil in South to North Water Diversion project * High slope engineering for Three Gorges ship locks * Large-scale landslides in China: Case studies * Early warning for Geo-Hazards based on the weather condition in China * Slope engineering in railway and highway construction in China * Mining slope engineering in China * Structure and failure patterns of engineered slopes at the Three Gorges reservoir * Slope engineering in hydropower projects in China * A thunder at the beginning of the 21st century - The giant Yigong Landslide Author index