The paper presents a description of the methods used to model rock as discontinuous
media. The objective of the work is to bring to the geomechanics community recent …

Over the last decade, researchers in the discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA)
community have dedicated a great deal of effort to document the accuracy of the method by …

In the present work, the 1963 Vajont landslide has been back-analyzed in detail to examine
the influence of reservoir operations (filling and drawdown) on Mt. Toc slope stability. The …

Freshly updated and extended version of Slope Analysis (Chowdhury, Elsevier, 1978). This
reference book gives a complete overview of the developments in slope engineering in the …

The extremely strong Wenchuan earthquake triggered thousands of landslides in Sichuan
Province, China. Flow-like landslides, such as the Tangjiashan, Wangjiayan, and …

The catastrophic Vaiont landslide (Southern Alps, Italy) of 9 October 1963 moved 2.7× 108
m3 of rock that collapsed in an artificial lake, causing a giant wave that killed 1917 people …

This work presents a numerical method for the simulation of landslides generated impulse
waves and its application to the historical Vajont case study. The computational tool is based …

Landslides can occur in different environments and can interact with or fall into water
reservoirs or open sea with different characteristics. The subaerial evolution and the …

Water-induced landslides in hydropower reservoirs pose a great threat to both project
operation and human life. This paper examines three large reservoirs in Sichuan Province …

Due to the difficulties of fracture mechanics in dealing with multicrack problems, the
continuum-based numerical methods always encounter mathematical problems when …