Effect of rising water table in an unsaturated slope

• Main Authors: Schnellmann, Reto, Busslinger, Matthias, Rahardjo, Harianto, Schneider, Hans R.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Geotechnical
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101447; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7374
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recently, climatic changes have caused more extreme weather conditions such as heavy rain falls and droughts. Therefore, climatic changes are expected to produce increased variations in infiltration characteristics and positions of water table in slopes. A physical slope model has been develo...