This paper develops a nonlinear strain wedge (SW) model for analyzing laterally loaded piles installed in the proximity of sandy slopes, with consideration of slope surface deformation. This model is first developed for piles at the slope crest, char...
In recent years, the influence of extreme weather patterns has led to an alarming increase in the frequency and severity of sub-surface forest fires in boreal forests. The Ledum palustre-Larix gmelinii forests of the Daxing’an Mountains of Chin...
Geohazards such as landslides, which are often accompanied by surface cracks, have caused great harm to public safety and property. If these surface cracks could be identified in time, this would be of great significance for the monitoring and early...
The ICESat-2 and SWOT satellite earth observation missions have provided highly accurate water surface slope (WSS) observations in global rivers for the first time. While water surface slope is expected to remain constant in time for approximately un...
Global warming has led to an increase in interest in river hydrology. Water surface slope is a basic parameter of river morphology and is critical in understanding riverine ecosystems. The Yarlung Zangbo River is an important international river. Sci...
A rock slope can be characterized by tens of persistent discontinuities. A slope can be massive. The slip surface of the slope is usually easier to expand along with the discontinuities because the shear strength of the discontinuities is substantial...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of surface slope and body posture (i.e., seated and standing) on lower extremity joint kinetics during cycling. Fourteen participants cycled at 250 watts power in three cycling conditions: leve...
Clay slopes are particularly sensitive to variations in soil strength, groundwater conditions, and slope geometry, making their rapid and reliable assessment essential for geotechnical design, landslide prevention, and infrastructure risk management....
The utilization of polymers can strengthen soil, but at a high price. In this study, value coefficients were proposed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of fiber-reinforced roadbeds, and the effects of embankment-slope-influencing factors on the valu...
Shallow failure and surface erosion account for the majority of rainfall-induced slope damage on Korean expressways, yet conventional countermeasures such as anchors and soil nailing are designed against deep-seated circular failure. This study evalu...
TLS can quickly and accurately capture object surface coordinates. However, TLS point clouds cannot cover the entire surface of the target object, due to block of view and limitation of measurement condition. Thus, using it to monitor deformation of...
The paper presents an intelligent real-time slope surface deformation monitoring system based on binocular stereo-vision. To adapt the system to field slope monitoring, a design scheme of concentric marking point is proposed. Techniques including Zer...
Slope landslide risk presents a critical challenge throughout high-speed railway construction and operation. Precise detection of sliding surfaces is essential for disaster prevention. This study develops an electrical detection method using complex...
Changes in land surface temperature (LST) can have serious impacts on the water cycle and ecological environment evolution, which in turn threaten the sustainability of ecosystems. The urban agglomeration on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mounta...
Against the background of global climate change, understanding land surface temperature (LST) variations and their driving mechanisms in arid oasis regions is essential for regional thermal environment management. This study investigated daytime and...
For a binary structure slope with a soil layer on the top and a rock layer on the bottom, during the rainfall process, surface runoff will cause soil and water loss on the slope surface and damage to the slope environment. When rainwater infiltrates...
The seismic performance of slopes is typically evaluated with a pseudo-static method using equivalent horizontal load or with Newmark sliding block analysis. In both procedures, the definition of the potential sliding surface is a required input. The...
Non-point source pollution has become one of the most widespread environmental degradation problems in recent years. This study aimed to investigate how hydrological processes regulate nitrogen and phosphorus losses under simulated rainfall condition...
Understanding how metropolitan coordination reshapes urban land expansion is essential for assessing territorial spatial governance. However, most existing studies focus on changes in built-up area or land-use composition, while paying limited attent...
Same level falls continue to contribute to an alarming number of slip/trip/fall injuries in the mining workforce. The objective of this study was to investigate how walking on different surface types and transverse slopes influences gait parameters t...
This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a modified adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA) with Universal Distinct Element Code (UDEC) simulation in analyzing fracture surface feature points of an anticline rocky slope. Using coordi...
Marine and terrestrial natural surfaces exhibit statistical scale invariance properties that are well modelled by fractional Brownian motion (fBm), two-dimensional random processes. Accordingly, for microwave remote sensing applications it is useful...
At present, there are still some gaps in the theoretical calculation of the permanent displacement of the multi-stage loess slope under the action of earthquake. Therefore, this paper firstly uses the GEO-Studio finite element software to explore the...
This study investigates the predictions of the real contact area for perfectly elastic rough surfaces using a boundary element method (BEM). Sample surface measurements were used in the BEM to predict the real contact area as a function of load. The...
The shelf-edge and continental slope current off the west coast of Canada has been monitored at a site off West Vancouver Island since 1985. However, observations at this site may not represent the characteristics of the shelf-edge and slope current...
Postural stability requires an interaction between cognitive, perceptual, sensory, and motor functions. Thus, impairment in any of these systems may affect postural balance. This study assessed the effect of visual input and surface slope on postural...
Slope surface deformation monitoring plays an important role in landslide risk assessment and early warning. Currently, the mainstream GNSS, as a point-measurement technique, is expensive to deploy, resulting in information on only a few points of di...
The purpose of the work was to determine the surface and subsurface water runoff and selected constituents of the matter contained and carried out from the eroded loess slope used as arable land. The research was carried out in 2008–2011 on the...
Slope farmland is prone to soil erosion, especially in sub/tropical regions. However, our understanding of near-surface hydrology characteristics and their controlled factors in red soil sloping farmland remains limited. Here, we conducted simulated...
Biomineralization technology is a promising method for soil cementation, enhancing its mechanical properties. However, its application in mitigating slope surface erosion caused by rainfall has not been fully explored. This study experimentally exami...
In engineering practice, slope stability is commonly assessed using a two-dimensional (2D) analysis under the assumption of plane strain conditions. However, when dealing with the complex surface geometries of three-dimensional (3D) slopes, especiall...
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) losses from sloping agricultural lands through runoff are a significant environmental concern, yet their transport mechanisms across different slope gradients are not well understood. Therefore, we built an experimenta...
Rainfall-induced landslides occur commonly in mountainous areas around the world and cause severe human and infrastructural damage. An early warning system can help people safely escape from a dangerous area and is an economical and effective method...
Living benthic foraminifera (>63 µm) were studied to characterize the continental slope of the Potiguar Basin (SW Atlantic). Foraminifers from the surface (0–2 cm), subsurface (2–5 cm), and integrated (0–5 cm) sediment layers were analyzed to veri...
We leverage on optical and radar remote sensing data acquired from the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinels to monitor the surface deformation evolution on a large and very active instability located in the Swiss Alps, i.e., the Moosfluh rock slope....
The attention to deep-seated gravitational slope deformations (DSGSDs) has steadily increased in the last few decades, because such features are ubiquitous in mountain areas. Their geomorphological surface expression, especially when related to the e...
We evaluate the capability of three different digital image correlation (DIC) algorithms to measure long-term surface displacement caused by a large slope instability in the Swiss Alps. DIC was applied to high-resolution optical imagery taken by airb...
In South Korea, reclaimed coastal tidelands (RTLs) are generally used for rice cultivation rather than upland cultivation; however, there is growing social pressure to change the use of RTLs to upland crop production to increase the self-sufficiency...
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Plant-based ecological protection is one of the effective methods to improve the stability of slope soils. However, plants need a stable growth environment and water supply. Although it has been demonstrated that polymer materials can effectively enh...
Winter weather can cause extremely dangerous road conditions. In order to analyze traffic accidents occurring in winter months in more detail, it is very important to evaluate the slope and the condition of road surfaces together. For this purpose, t...
The surface water extraction algorithm based on satellite remote sensing images is advantageous as it is able to obtain surface water information in a relatively short time. However, when it is used to extract information on surface water in large-sc...
Landslides are one of the critical natural hazards that cause human, infrastructure, and economic losses. Risk of catastrophic losses due to landslides is significant given sprawled urban development near steep slopes and the increasing proximity of...
Rainfall infiltration modeling over surfaces with significant slopes is an unsolved problem. Even though water infiltration occurs over soil surfaces with noticeable gradients in most real situations, the typical mathematical models used were develop...
The gentle-slope tunnel has been adopted in many high dams, and aerators are usually required for high operating heads. For such tunnels, the lateral deflector is superior to the traditional bottom aerator, which loses its efficiency due to cavity bl...
Embankments are extensively applied in civil engineering and exist naturally, characterized by a constant slope ensuring stable material stacking. Despite their ubiquity, research on embankment surface geometric modeling remains limited. Three novel...
The spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) offers versatile Earth surface observation. While the accuracy of the computed geometry, required for the implementation of the technique, degrades when Earth’s surface t...
Due to impinging jets, the hydraulic load in a plunge pool can be very large and may cause serious damage to the slope and bottom protection structures. Conventional research mainly focuses on the stability of the plunge pool floor, and studies on sl...
To elucidate the runoff generation pathways and associated carbon–nitrogen transport characteristics on grass-covered black soil slopes under varying rainfall intensities and slope gradients, a series of simulated rainfall experiments was condu...
When studying the stability of a slope, the first issue that needs to be clarified is the slip surface, which determines the minimum safety factor. The slopes investigated here are homogenous with three distinct gradients (1:1.5; 1:1; 2:1), two defin...
Clarifying the impact of underlay (i.e., the combination of near-surface vegetation and surface micro-topography) on the surface runoff process would provide a significant theoretical basis for the adjustment of vegetation patterns and the control of...
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