Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
15 Aug 2008, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Abstract
Trøndelag is a region in Mid-Norway with large deposits of quick and sensitive clays. Accordingly, the quick clay sliding activity in the region is rather high. The two best known cases are presented in this paper, the Verdal and the Rissa landslides. These slides have had a significant impact on the teaching and research at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU) and on how the communities and authorities relate to risk of new slides. The Geotechnical Group at NTNU has been working extensively with quick clay behaviour through decades, particularly on understanding the progressive failure mechanism and modelling of it, in the latest years through finite element analyses. The paper presents these two specific cases, the Verdal and the Rissa quick clay slides, and how these have contributed to the research work and education at the Geotechnical Group at NTNU. Focus will be on development of thesis work on the soil conditions and slope stability in the Verdal valley and on thesis on quick clay behaviour and failure mechanisms in particular.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Bæverfjord, G. and Thakur, Vikas, "The Verdaland Rissa Landslides — Application of Case Histories in Education" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 15.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session11/15
The Verdaland Rissa Landslides — Application of Case Histories in Education
Arlington, Virginia
Trøndelag is a region in Mid-Norway with large deposits of quick and sensitive clays. Accordingly, the quick clay sliding activity in the region is rather high. The two best known cases are presented in this paper, the Verdal and the Rissa landslides. These slides have had a significant impact on the teaching and research at the Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU) and on how the communities and authorities relate to risk of new slides. The Geotechnical Group at NTNU has been working extensively with quick clay behaviour through decades, particularly on understanding the progressive failure mechanism and modelling of it, in the latest years through finite element analyses. The paper presents these two specific cases, the Verdal and the Rissa quick clay slides, and how these have contributed to the research work and education at the Geotechnical Group at NTNU. Focus will be on development of thesis work on the soil conditions and slope stability in the Verdal valley and on thesis on quick clay behaviour and failure mechanisms in particular.
