A Laboratory Study on Rainfall-Induced Landslides

Authors

1 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Marand, Iran

2 Faculty of Engineering, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

< p >< p >Frequently, rainfalls with high intensity and/or low intensity but lasting for a long time cause landslides in many parts of the world (Lu and Godt, 2013). To be used in early warning systems, rainfall intensity-duration (I-D) thresholds generally are the key to predict the time and location of rainfall-induced landslides (Wieczorek and Glade, 2005). In the current study, the flume experiments are used to develop I-D thresholds and to investigate the effect of soil relative densities on it are described (Ahmadi-adli, 2014).

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