Earthquake-Induced Landslides Initiation and run-out analysis by considering vertical seismic loading, tension failure and the trampoline effect /

• Main Author: Zhang, Yingbin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Natural Hazards,
• Subjects: Natural disasters.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geomorphology.; Engineering geology.; Engineering-Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Natural Hazards.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.

This book sheds new light on improved methods for the study of the initiation and run-out of earthquake-induced landslides. It includes an initiation study method considering tension-shear failure mechanism, an improved rigorous dynamic sliding block method based on dynamic critical acceleration and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Review of studies of earthquake-induced landsides
• Seismic slope stability analysis by considering tension crack
• Run-out analysis of earthquake-induced landslides
• Extension of discontinuous deformation analysis and application in cohesive-frictional slope analysis
• A case study of earthquake-induced landslide
• Conclusions and future studies.