Natural and Artificial Rockslide Dams
In the last one hundred years, a number of catastrophic events associated with rockslide dam formation and failure have occurred in the mountain regions of the world. This book presents a global view of the formation, characteristics and behaviour of natu
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Stephen G. Evans · Reginald L. Hermanns · Alexander Strom · Gabriele Scarascia-Mugnozza Editors
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Editors Stephen G. Evans University of Waterloo Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Landslide Research Programme University Avenue W. 200 N2L 3G1 Waterloo Ontario Canada [email protected] Alexander Strom Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of the Geospheres Dynamics Leninskiy Avenue 38 119334 Moscow Bldg. 1 Russia [email protected]
Dr. Reginald L. Hermanns International Centre for Geohazards Geological Survey of Norway Landslide Department Trondheim Norway [email protected]
Dr. Gabriele Scarascia-Mugnozza University of Rome “La Sapienza” Department of Earth Sciences Piazzale Aldo Moro 5 00185 Rome Italy [email protected]
ISSN 0930-0317 ISBN 978-3-642-04763-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-04764-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-04764-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011930516 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd., Pondicherry Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedication
We wish to dedicate this volume to Dr. John Neville Hutchinson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London. He is a leading scientist and a master practitioner in the field of engineering geomorphology and is internationally recognised as one of the foremost landslide researchers of the last five decades. After graduating in Civil Engineering in 1947, he began his professional career working in construction and structural design. In 1957 he joined the Swedish Geotechnical Institute where he mainly worked on road and airport foundations but also investigated the Gota quick clay landslide with Sven Odenstad. In 1958 he moved to the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute where he initially worked on settlements and friction piles in soft clays as a research engineer under the guidance of L. Bjerrum and O. Eide. In 1959 he led the investigation of two large-scale q
