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Traditional approaches to prevent rainfall-induced landslides consist of such stabilization of unstable slopes as installation of retaining walls as well as ground anchors. Although having been useful in mitigation of large slope failures, those traditional measures are not very helpful in mitigation of small slope failures which are less significant in scale but numerous in numbers. It is proposed in the present text for people to install slope instability detectors which find precursors of an imminent slope failure and issue warnings so that people may be able to evacuate themselves prior to fatal slope failures. To achieve this goal, model tests as well as laboratory triaxial tests have been conducted in order to understand the behavior of soil prior to failure. Moreover, numerical analyses on ground water percolation and decrease of factor of safety in the course of rainfall were conducted on a sandy slope in order to support findings from model tests. As a whole, a small instrument is proposed for a use of people which can detect minor displacement and change of moisture content prior to failure in a slope and issue warning through internet.
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Towhata, I., Uchimura, T., Gallage, C. (2005). On Early Detection and Warning against Rainfall-Induced Landslides (M129). In: Sassa, K., Fukuoka, H., Wang, F., Wang, G. (eds) Landslides. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28680-2_16
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