Rainfall-induced flow landslides in coarse-grained soils pose significant threats to
populations and structures due to their high velocities, long travel distance and the absence …

In the last 15 years, a series of catastrophic flowslides involving pyroclastic unsaturated soils
has caused severe damage and a number of fatalities in the Campania region (southern …

The results of laboratory infiltration experiments on instrumented model slopes are
presented. Loose granular volcanic ashes from the mountainous area north-eastern of …

Many geotechnical analyses commonly ignore the flux boundary conditions at the ground
surface to avoid the complexity in determining the actual flux values at the soil-atmosphere …

Pore pressure changes play a major role in the stability of natural slopes, whose safety
factor value is usually much smaller than that generally accepted in any other geotechnical …

Shallow flowslides, debris flows and debris avalanches are rainfall-induced landslides
consisting in the shear failure of few metres of soils (or in some cases even less than a …

Although landsliding is the macroscopic effect of slope failure, it is only the final stage of an
often time-consuming process of soil deformation. In many cases, slope movement remains …

The paper presents an accessible approach for preliminary hydraulic and mechanical
characterisation of unsaturated soils and stability analysis of geo-structures under …

This paper investigates the interaction between soil and atmosphere in pyroclastic soils with
a view to understanding whether and to what extent the prediction of the hydraulic (and …

The experimental technique proposed in the paper was designed to rapidly and reliably
determine both the water retention curve and the permeability function of undisturbed …