Rainfall-induced landslides occur more often with climate change, resulting in destruction and loss of lives many parts the world. Predicting such is paramount to maintain local infrastructure well-being communities. Several models have been proposed past years; however, most them only work well when being applied site conditions for which they were developed. This describes a new approach esti...

Abstract Shear strength of unsaturated soils is an important engineering property that required for addressing geotechnical problems, the prediction which remains to be a challenging task design engineers due complex interaction problem. This study presents new shear equation based on micromechanical model and disturbed state concept soils. The original point this considering solid contact area...

Extreme rainfall events are the major driver of shallow landslide occurrences in mountainous and steep terrain regions around the world. Subsurface hydrology has a dominant role on the initiation of rainfall-induced shallow landslides, since changes in the soil water content affect significantly the soil shear strength. Rainfall infiltration produces an increase of soil water potential, which i...