This publication gathers the latest medical examine at the geological, geotechnical and geophysical features of slope failure in delicate clays. accumulating contributions by means of overseas specialists, it specializes in realizing the total and functional spectrum of demanding situations awarded via landslides in such advanced fabrics. in keeping with sound and proven study effects, the booklet additionally provides a number of concepts that may be carried out within the directions or code-of-practice. those strategies disguise issues together with the characterization and behaviour of delicate clays; the pre-failure, failure and post-failure levels of delicate clays; mapping and id tools; weather swap; chance review; and threat management.

Sensitive clays are identified for his or her capability for inflicting huge landslides, which pose a significant probability to human lives, infrastructure, and surrounding ecosystems inside of their succeed in. This has been established via the new catastrophic landslides in e.g. Sørum (2016), Skjeggestad (2015), Statland (2014), Byneset (2012), St-Jude (2010), Lyngen (2010) and Kattmarka (2009). The 2015 cave in of the Skjeggestad Bridge in Norway – which used to be as a result of a landslide in delicate clay – on my own bills hundreds of thousands of bucks in upkeep. lately, efforts are being made to extend society’s skill to deal with such landslide dangers. Geoscientists at the moment are anticipated to supply enter to the enterprises accountable for landslide-risk preparedness. In different phrases, geoscientists’ function isn't just to behave as technologists to set up new theories, but in addition to move the additional mile to enforce them in perform, in order to locate significant ideas to geotechnical problems.