Progress in Landslide Science (Hardcover)

Progress in Landslide Science.- Landslide Science as a New Scientific Discipline.- An Overview of Landslide Problems in the British Isles, with Reference to Geology, Geography and Conservation.- Considerations about the Mechanics of Slow Active Landslides in Clay.- Dynamics of Rapid Landslides.- Progress in Debris Flow Modeling.- Landslide Dynamics.- Undrained Stress-controlled Dynamic-loading Ring-shear Test to Simulate Initiation and Post-failure Motion of Landslides.- Shear Behavior and Shear Zone Structure of Granular Materials in Naturally Drained Ring Shear Tests.- Rockslides and Their Motion.- Residual Shear Strength of Tertiary Mudstone and Influencing Factors.- On Failure of Municipal Waste Landfill.- Experimental Study with Ring Shear Apparatus on the May 2004 Landslide-Debris Flow at Bettou-dani Valley, Haku-san Mountain, Japan.- On the Pore-pressure Generation and Movement of Rainfall-induced Landslides in Laboratory Flume Tests.- Ring Shear Tests on Clays of Fracture Zone Landslides and Clay Mineralogical Aspects.- Landslides Induced by a Combined Effect of Earthquake and Rainfall.- Landslide Experiments on Artificial and Natural Slopes.- Landslide Monitoring.- Enlargement of a Failed Area along a Sliding Surface.- Airborne LIDAR Data Measurement and Landform Classification Mapping in Tomari-no-tai Landslide Area, Shirakami Mountains, Japan.- Integration of Remote Sensing Techniques in Different Stages of Landslide Response.- Rock Deformation Monitoring at Cultural Heritage Sites in Slovakias.- Landslide Risk Assessment.- Extracting Necessary Pparameters from Real Landslide Mass for Mitigating Landslide Disaster.- Landslide Dams Formed by the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in Japan.- Shear Behavior of Clay in Slope for Pore Water Pressure Increase.- Static and Dynamic Analyses of Slopes by the FEM.- Debris Flows in the Vicinity of the Machu Picchu Village, Peru.- Engineering Geology and Cultural Heritage: the Conservation of Remaining Bamiyan Buddhas (Central Afghanistan).- Debris Flow Hazard Defense Magnitude Assessment with Numerical Simulation.