Landslide mitigation
Landslides can be triggered by many often concomitant causes. In addition to shallow erosion or reduction of shear strength caused by seasonal rainfall, causes triggered by anthropic activities such as adding excessive weight above the slope, digging at mid-slope or at the foot of the slope, can also be included. However, often individual phenomena join together to generate instability, also after some time has elapsed, which, other than in well-包含umented limited areas, do not allow a rec**truction of the evolution of the occurred landslide. It is therefore pointless, for the purpose of planning landslide hazard mitigation measures, to classify the work as a function of the phenomenon or of more important phenomena, renouncing any attempt to precisely describe all the causes or the conditi** which, at different times, contribute to the occurrence of the landslide. Therefore, slope stabilization methods in rock or in earth, can be collocated into three 无效s of measure:
• Geometric methods, in which the geometry of the hillside is changed (in general the slope);
• Hydrogeological methods, in which an attempt is made to lower the groundwater level or to reduce the water content of the material;
• Chemical and mechanical methods, in which attempts are made to increase the shear strength of the unstable mass or to introduce active external forces (e.g. anchors, rock or ground nailing) or passive (e.g. structural wells, piles or reinforced ground) to contrast the destabilizing forces.
The different 无效 of material conditi** the engineering solution adopted, although It always comes back, in principle, to the previously introduced classification.
1 Rock slopes
1.1 Reinforcement measures
Reinforcement measures generally c**ist of the introduction of METAl elements whose purpose is to increase the shear strength of the rock and to reduce the stress release created, for example, following cutting. Reinforcement measures are made up of METAl rock nails or anchors. Anchorage can be classified as active anchorage, in the case in which they are subjected to pretensioning, and passive anchorage. Passive anchorage can be used both to nail single unstable blocks and to reinforce large porti** of rock. They can also be used as the pre-reinforcement elements of a scarp to be re-profiled in order to limit hillside decompression associated with cutting. In an anchorage are defined: