Landslides - Investigation and Mitigation
Transportation Research Board, Special Report 247
This Transportation Research Board report is a greatly expanded edition of the
highly popular predecessor Special Report 176 on landslides published in 1978.
The new report, which has been designed with an even broader international scope,
contains practical discussions of field investigations, laboratory testing, and
stability analysis procedures. Also included are case studies, research directions
and comprehensive references. This comprehensive report comprises twenty-five
chapters organized into five sections:
ISBN 0-309-06208-X
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- Principles, definitions and assessments
- Field investigations
- Strength of rock and soil, and stability analyses
- Mitigation measures for rock and soil slides
- Special cases and materials, including tropical and residual soils,
colluvium and talus, shales and degradable materials, hydraulic tailings,
loess, soft sensitive clays and permafrost.
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The report is of interest to geologists and engineers responsible for landslide
investigations, university students studying landslides, and researchers desiring
a definitive reference for landslide investigation and mitigation procedures.
As committee members of an international group of experts, Duncan
Wyllie and Norman Norrish contributed to the overall
structure of the report and authored the three chapters devoted to rock engineering –Shear
Strength of Rock, Rock Slope Stability Analysis Methods and Stabilization
and Rock Fall Protection Methods.
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