Toward a Plausible Methodology to Assess Rock Slope Instabilities at a Regional Scale

A Preliminary Assessment of Rock Slope Stability in Tropical Climates: A Case Study at Lafarge Quarry, Perak, Malaysia

The stability analysis of rock slopes is a complex task for the geotechnical engineers due to the complex nature of the rock mass in a tropical climate that often has discontinuities in several forms, and consequently, in several types of slope failures. In this work, a rock mass classification scheme is followed in a tropical environment using the Rock Mass Rating (RMR) and Geological St...

Developing Remote Sensing Methods to Assess the Effects of Large Floods at a Regional Scale

.................................................................................................................... iv Introduction ................................................................................................................. 1 Background and Study Area ....................................................................................... 2 Methods ...........................

Damage to Buildings in Large Slope Rock Instabilities Monitored with the PSInSAR™ Technique

The slow movement of active deep-seated slope gravitational deformations (DSGSDs) and deep-seated rockslides can cause damage to structures and infrastructures. We use Permanent Scatterers Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (PSInSARTM) displacement rate data for the analysis of DSGSD/rockslide activity and kinematics and for the analysis of damage to buildings. We surveyed the degree of da...

Toward a Psycholinguistically Plausible Parser

Fractal rock slope dynamics anticipating a collapse.

Time series of dilatometric measurements of relative displacements on rock cracks on stable and unstable sandstone slopes were analyzed. The inherent dynamics of rock slopes lack any significant nonlinearity. However, the residuals obtained by removing meteorological influences are fat-tailed non-Gaussian fluctuations, with short-range correlations in the case of stable slopes. The fluctuations...