HIGHWAY SLOPE PROBLEMS IN INDONESIA. PROCEEDINGS, SIXTH CONFERENCE, ROAD ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA, 4-10 MARCH 1990, KUALA LUMPUR, VOLUMES 1 TO 5 AND POST CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

In Indonesia, and many other mountainous tropical countries, slope failures create significant difficulties for road construction and maintenance. As in most other aspects of highway engineering such problems can only be dealt with empirically by applying the experience that has come from effectively dealing with similar problems elsewhere. In applying such experience the first stage is to identify the main type of instability in terms of the mechanisms and general characteristics of failure. This approach was used in one part of Indonesia, Java, and involved an overall study of the extent of slope failure problems together with a detailed investigation of groundwater, soil properties and the depth and rates of failure at a number of representative landslide sites. From this research the principal mechanism of failure that caused most damage to roads in Java was identified. For the covering entry of the conference see IRRD 823206. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Road Engineering Association of Asia & Australasia

  Office of the Director-General of Public Works
  Kuala Lumpur,   Malaysia 
• Authors:
  • HEATH, W
  • SAROSO, B S
  • Dowling, JWF
• Publication Date: 1990

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 25 p.
• Serial:
  • Volume: 3

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Failure; Geology; Groundwater; Landslides; Mountains; Properties of materials; Slope stability; Soil mechanics; Soils; Tropics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Soil properties
• Geographic Terms: Indonesia
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00620249
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 31 1992 12:00AM