Understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk. Volume 4. Testing, modeling and risk assessment / Понимание и снижение риска оползневых катастроф. Том 4. Тестирование, моделирование и оценка рисков

Landslides, among the most devastating natural disasters in the world, have been, annually, killing thousands of lives, affecting millions of people, and causing billions of dollars of property damage globally. Understanding the causes of specific landslides and their failure mechanisms will help us developing appropriate mitigation measures. Specifically, as landslides directly affect our lifeline infrastructures, applying appropriate engineering judgement while designing sustainable and suitable prevention works using locally available manpower and resources is very important for any strategic landslide management planning. With the advancement of new technology and knowledge, there has been a significant enhancement in the resources available for the analyses of landslides and debris flow disasters, prior to developing their mitigation measures. Dissemination of such information through scientific platforms such as publication, conferences, and global lecture series play an important role in reducing the impact of landslide disasters globally and developing resilient community. More importantly, methods pertinent to in situ and laboratory testing, numerical and experimental as well as physical modeling, and tools available for landslide risk assessment advance very quickly and utilization of globally available resources for landslide testing, modeling, and risk assessment help in promoting global partnership on landslide hazard mitigation. This volume of the book series is intended to compile articles from all over the world, specifically related to recent development on testing, analyzing, modeling, and risk assessment techniques to reduce landslide hazards.
Divided into six parts, this volume includes 5 keynote lectures and 45 peer-reviewed papers in five different research areas pertinent to the theme of this volume, namely, recent development in physical modeling of landslides, recent development in numerical modeling of landslides, recent development in soil and rock testing techniques, application and analysis methods, recent advancements in the methods of slope stability and deformation analyses, and recent development in disaster risk assessment.
The Keynote lectures have been authored by global experts on numerical and physical modeling of landslides, laboratory, and in situ testing of soil and rock, stability and deformation analysis, and landslide risk assessment and cover case studies associated with each topics including but not limited to the seismically induced landslides such as due to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake 1994 Northridge Earthquake, rainfall-induced landslides such as the 2014 Oso Landslide in Washington, and large landslides that occurred along the Jinsha River in China <...>