Weather induced landslides cause a large number of casualties as well as severe economic losses worldwide every year. Such a diffuse risk cannot be mitigated only by means of structural works, typically characterized ...

In recent years, the contamination of groundwater has become a growing threat at global scale. The improper release of chemicals from numerous and different sources (landfills, leaking storage tanks, etc.) in the subsurface ...

Characterizing and forecasting the evolution of slope movements are highly studied topics due to the possible consequences of landslides on buildings, infrastructures and in terms of loss of life. The international scientific ...

Large deformation analysis has become recently centre of attraction in geotechnical design. It is used to predict geotechnical boundary value problems such as, excessive movement of soil masses like landslides or soil-structure ...

Pyroclastic soils are widely diffused all over the world and they are characterized by high porosity and an open metastable internal structure. In situ they usually cover the shallowest layers of slopes in unsaturated ...

Flow-like mass movements are catastrophic events occurring all over the world and may result in a great number of casualties and widespread damages. The analysis of the time-space evolution of the kinematic quantities is ...

The study on impact mechanisms of flow-like landslides against structures is still an open issue in the scientific literature. Many researchers have employed so far either experiments or numerical methods, but the evaluation of ...

The slow-moving landslides, being able to develop in different geological contexts, yearly induce huge damages on structures and/or infrastructures interacting with them with consequent losses of economic nature. For this ...