Development of the landslide risk classification for natural and man-made slopes based on soil watering and deformation extent

Oleksandr Kovrov,Yurii Buchavyi,Valerii Kolesnyk

doi:10.33271/mining14.04.105

Abstract

The results represented in the paper have been obtained with no financial support of any grant or a scientific project. The team of authors expresses their gratitude to the reviewers for valuable recommendations that have been taken into account to improve significantly the quality of this paper.

Highlights

Displacements of land surface in natural and man-made slopes are considered as the sources of potential environmental risks, including the man-made ones, which often result in emergencies or disasters
The scale is recommended for assessing the stability of man-made slopes comprised of solid and bulk rocks and for forecasting the environmental risk from landslides resulting from emergency situations
The following methodological approach was applied: methods of comprehensive stability evaluation for natural and man-made slopes with the consideration of their geometry, watering, geo-climatic conditions, and technogenic impacts; methods of geomechanical assessment, environmental evaluation, and forecasting landslide risks in terms of natural geosystems and man-made slopes based on the safety factor

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Introduction

Displacements of land surface in natural and man-made slopes are considered as the sources of potential environmental risks, including the man-made ones, which often result in emergencies or disasters. The main natural factors of landslide activation include the amount and intensity of precipitations, terrain features, soil composition, external loads, seismic impacts etc. In this case, human activity is an additional factor in the development of a landslide process due to increasing soil moisture as a result of water supply or sewer failures, external loads on the earth’s surface, undercutting of slopes during the construction operations, dynamic loads from transportation or blasting etc.

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