Applied Geology to protection and sustainable development of territory

Criteria for landslide classification. Engineering-geology model for slopes involved in landslides. Landslide mechanisms and related features. Translational landslide mechanisms: infinite slope. Limit equilibrium stability analyses for roto-translational landslides: methods of Fellenius, Bishop and Janbu. Stability charts. Analysis of lateral stresses within a landslide mass: method of wedges. Seismically induced landslides: presudostatic analysis, Newmark method and dynamic analysis. Stability analysis of rock slopes: Markland test, sliding blocks, Hoek.Bray method, toppling. Stress-strain numerical modeling: principles of soil and rock rheology, rheological models, limit state equilibrium. Stress-strain slope stability analysis: strength reduction analysis, local safety factors, numerical modeling for stationary groundwater seepage, creep modeling, dynamic numerical modeling. Elements of scale-reduced analogical modeling for slope stability. Examples of landslide study by the mean of back analysis and parametric approaches devoted to prevention from landslide processes. Numerical and practical exercises on: limit equilibrium methods of slope stability analysis, back-analysis and sensitivity analyses for slope-stability, dimensioning of slope reinforcement and of interventions for slope stabilization, numerical model project, in site engineering-geology survey for performing slope stability analysis and for providing technical reports.

Basic knowledge of soil and rock mechanics

Soil Mechanics and Foundations Muni Buddhu Wiley Meccanica dei Terreni T.W. Lambe, R.V. Whitman – Dario Flaccovio Ed. Geologia Applicata all’Ambiente P. Canuti, U. Crescenti, V. Francani – casa Editrice Ambrosiana Geoingegneria I. Gonzalez De Vallejo – Pearson Analisi di stabilità dei pendi: i metodi all’equilibrio limite globale Camillo Airò Farulla – Hevelius Rock Slope Engineering Duncan C. Wyllie & Christopher W. Mah – Spon Press Breve introduzione alla dinamica delle frane: F. De Blasio – Liguori Editrice Geologia Tecnica (Idrogeologia Applicata, Dinamica dei versanti, strade, Opere in sotterraneo, Dighe) L. Scesi, M. Papini, P. Gattinoni, L. Longoni – Casa Editrice Ambrosiana

Attendance is not mandatory but participation in the lessons in person and, above all, in the numerical exercises in the classroom as well as those organized on the field is strongly recommended. At the beginning of the course the teacher provides a detailed timetable of the teaching activities planned during the course, indicating on which dates there will be the hours of exercises in the classroom and on the field.

The assessment is carried out during an oral exam before which the student will have submitted a technical report on a slope stability analysis which will be subject to correction and discussion during the oral exam.

The teacher invites those attending the course to study and study in depth the recommended textbooks, they emphasize that the handouts made available through the Moodle platform (accessible only to those enrolled in the course) should be understood as "support" to the frontal teaching and not as a substitute for the contents of the textbooks. The teacher makes available on the Moodle platform for each topic covered several open access scientific papers that can be downloaded and should be considered as bibliographic documentation of the course.

Theory lessons are held in person and in the classroom Numerical exercises are held in person and in the classroom Field exercises are held in the presence of the teacher on the dates scheduled at the beginning of the course