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Runout of Landslides in Sensitive Clays

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Landslides in Sensitive Clays

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ((NTHR,volume 46))

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An essential part of landslide hazard and risk assessment is the estimate of the runout distance of the landslide masses. There is, however, little guidance available today on the estimation of the landslide runout in sensitive clays and no suitable model exists for predicting runout in sensitive clays. A new empirical model for the runout estimation is presented in this paper. The new model is based on empirical data, and is recommended for use in Norway until further research on analytical models becomes available. The recommended empirical procedure is based on the historical landslides in sensitive clays in Norway. The paper discusses the implementation of the proposed empirical models in a calculation tool called GeoSuite Toolbox as a part an ongoing R&D project GeoFuture II.

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    NIFS is a large Inter Government R&D project by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, the Norwegian National Rail Administration and the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (Dolva and Pektovic 2017).

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Acknowledgements

The cooperative research program (Natural Hazards: Infrastructure for Floods and Slides (NIFS)) and the partners in the GeoFuture II research program, and The Research Council of Norway are gratefully acknowledged for their support. The authors also wish to express their gratitude to the reviewer Dr. Samson Abate Degago, from Norwegian Public Roads Administration, for his valuable comments.

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  1. Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway

    Stein-Are Strand & Trude Nyheim

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Vikas Thakur

  3. Trondheim Division, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Trondheim, Norway

    Jean-Sébastien L’Heureux

  4. Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo, Norway

    Suzanne Lacasse, Kjell Karlsrud & Vidar Gjelsvik

  5. Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), Oslo, Norway

    Kristian Aunaas & Hanne Bratlie Ottesen

  6. Multiconsult AS, Oslo, Norway

    Odd Arne Fauskerud & Rolf Sandven

  7. Trimble, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Anders Rosenquist af Åkershult

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Strand, SA. et al. (2017). Runout of Landslides in Sensitive Clays. In: Thakur, V., L'Heureux, JS., Locat, A. (eds) Landslides in Sensitive Clays. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56487-6_26

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