Slope stability
Slope stability
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The premise I am investigating is that short (daily) and longer term (seasonal) climatic conditions, primarily rainfall and snowmelt, strongly influence slope stability conditions. I am looking for antecendent indices that will allow a railway to identify periods of hightened slope stability hazards and respond appropriately. I have come across a few methodologies but am always on the look out for more.
RE: Slope stability
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geoman
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RE: Slope stability
Chris Bunce
RE: Slope stability
RE: Slope stability
Maybe an automatical with satellite coordinated NOOA or something so (I don't know trhe acronym for your meteorology center) plus railway input from the railway operators can make the 2 databases to be then studied and correlated.
RE: Slope stability
Slope Stability Problems Associated with Timber Harvesting in Mountainous Regions of the Western United States, USFS General Technical Report PNW-21, 1974 (has a good discussion about the relationship between precipitation and mobilization).
Earth Flows: Morphology, Mobilization, and Movement, USGS Professional Paper 1264, 1983 (also discusses the relationship between precipitation and mobilization).
Debris Flows and Debris Torrents in the Southern Canadian Cordillera, D.F. VanDine, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, No. 22, pp 44-68, 1985 (discusses precipitation as a "triggering event").
Hope this helps!