-
Article
Advances in ice avalanches on the Tibetan Plateau
As some of the greatest natural disasters in the cryosphere, ice avalanches (IAs) seriously threaten lives and cause catastrophic damage to the resource environment, but a comprehensive overview of the state o...
-
Article
Hidden dangers of ice avalanches and glacier lake outburst floods on the Tibetan Plateau: identification, inventory, and distribution
Under the climate warming, the ice avalanches (IAs) and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) will continue or even intensify in the future. In order to find out the number, spatial distribution, and characteri...
-
Article
Modeling progressive damage and failure of rock under continuous cyclic loading considering strength degradation of mesoscopic finite elements
The failure process of rock materials submitted to cyclic loadings such as drilling, excavation, and external vibration, constitutes the mechanism of some underground excavation instability. However, there sti...
-
Article
Modification of phreatic line calculation model for landslide accumulation in the Three Gorges Reservoir area
Since 2008, the water level of the Three Gorges Reservoir has been periodically fluctuating between 175 and 145 m. The rise and fall of the reservoir water level result in changes in the seepage field in the s...
-
Article
Effect of Confining Pressure on the Damage Evolution and Failure Behaviors of Intact Sandstone Samples During Cyclic Disturbance
Under cyclic disturbances, the free faces of the surrounding rock that simultaneously bears a high geostress may pose potential engineering hazards related to large deformation or displacement. However, the me...
-
Article
Post-failure landslide change detection and analysis using optical satellite Sentinel-2 images
Post-failure landslide change detection is crucial for mitigation strategies. However, the methods used to investigate this issue all involve a tough workflow, and the free access Sentinel-2 satellite is under...
-
Article
Permeability of the reservoir water fluctuation zone of landslide bodies in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China
The fluctuation of water level in the Three Gorges Reservoir is up to 30 m, and the reservoir water fluctuation zone is the important channel of reservoir water flowing in and out of a landslide. The permeabil...
-
Article
Characterizing the spatial distribution and fundamental controls of landslides in the three gorges reservoir area, China
A comprehensive field investigation and analysis of the spatial distribution of landslides was conducted in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) along the Yangtze River and its first-order tributaries. A lan...
-
Article
A hybrid machine learning and computing model for forecasting displacement of multifactor-induced landslides
A novel hybrid model composed of least squares support vector machines (LSSVM) and double exponential smoothing (DES) was proposed and applied to calculate one-step ahead displacement of multifactor-induced la...
-
Article
Investigating a reservoir bank slope displacement history with multi-frequency satellite SAR data
Slope instability arisen along with dam construction is a common problem of great concern in reservoir areas. Thus, displacement monitoring of active slopes is of great importance for the safety of dam operati...
-
Article
Site monitoring of suction and temporary pore water pressure in an ancient landslide in the Three Gorges reservoir area, China
Rainfall is the main factor influencing the stability of landslides, but the precise mechanisms and processes are still poorly known. Unsaturated soil mechanics can be used to study how suction and temporary p...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Recognition and Genetic Mechanism of Sanmashan Deep-Seated Landslide, Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China
It is confirmed that the abnormal geologic body of Sanmashan in new Fengjie Town of Three Gorges reservoir in China is a large-scale and deep-seated ancient landslide, not fault graben or karst subsidence. The...
-
Article
A catastrophic rockslide-debris flow in Wulong, Chongqing, China in 2009: background, characterization, and causes
On June 5, 2009, a catastrophic rockslide-debris flow occurred at the crest of the Jiweishan Mountain in Wulong, Chongqing, China. Approximately five million cubic meters of limestone blocks slid along a weak ...
-
Chapter
Bank Collapse Along the Three Gorges Reservoir and the Application of Time-Dependent Modeling
After the Three Gorges reservoir impoundment water level changed, the groundwater dynamic stress field and the rock mass stress field changed considerably. As the water level changes, wave erosion as well as r...
-
Chapter
An Evaluation Study of Bank Collapse Prediction in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area
When the impoundment of the Three Gorges reservoir reaches a water level of 175 m, the reservoir banks along the main river course and its tributaries will have a total length of 5,311 km. Among them, the rock...
