Landslides are generated by natural causes and by human action, causing various
geomorphological changes as well as physical and socioeconomic loss of the environment …

Loess slopes are widely distributed throughout the northwestern region of China and are
prone to slope failure in response to heavy rainfall. We undertook three groups of flume …

Rainfall-induced shallow landslides can seriously affect cultivations and infrastructures and
cause human losses. A continuous monitoring of unsaturated soil hydrological properties is …

Affected by groundwater fluctuations, the loess around the hydro-fluctuation zone near the
groundwater table is frequently subjected to periodic dry-wet cycles. The investigation on the …

Thick loess deposits are considered problematic soils due to their susceptibility to collapse
suddenly and in large volumes upon increase of water content. In the past decades, a large …

This paper presents the results of centrifuge tests on rainfall-induced instabilities in variably
saturated slopes. The roles of rainfall intensity and initial conditions, such as slope angle …

Because recurrent rainfall-induced landslide episodes mimic prior failures, this study builds
a back-analysis approach to identify those prior failure events and assess the prospective …

With a suction stress–based effective stress representation, stability analysis of unsaturated
engineered and natural slopes can be performed effectively in the same manner as the …

This paper investigates rainfall-induced landslides on partially saturated soil slopes using
the 2011 Umyeonsan landslides at the center of Seoul, Korea. An integrated analysis of …

It is essential to cast light on the construction risks in tunnel excavations through the fault-
fracture zone (FFZ). This study adopts the material point method (MPM) to simulate the …