EXPERIMENTS ON SLOPE FAILURE AND ITS PREVENTION BY DRAINAGE FOR SANDY EMBANKMENTS UNDER ARTIFICIAL RAINFALL

Slope failure experiments on sandy embankments were carried out under artificial rainfall to predict the slope failure and prevent it. Experiments have revealed that the failure is caused by the rise of the pore water pressure in the impermeable layer. An effective preventive measure for the slope failure is to make drainage work to keep the slope surface far from the level of water table and the most effective one will be laying a drainage blanket over the impermeable layer.

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• Corporate Authors:

  JAPANESE NATIONAL RAILWAYS

  TOKYO,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Saito, M
  • Uezawa, H
• Publication Date: 1969-9

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 142-148
• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Embankments; Forecasting; Pore water pressures; Rain; Slope failure; Soil mechanics; Technology
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00033142
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Quart Rpt
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 16 1973 12:00AM