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The State of the Art of SPH Modelling for Flow-slide Propagation

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Modern Technologies for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction

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Flow-slide disaster is a continuing problem along hillsides in mountainous areas, which always results in numerous casualties and catastrophic destruction of buildings and regional landscapes. Predicting of the propagation stage is of great importance for the disaster mitigation. The smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, a mesh-free particle technique, has been widely applied for modelling of flow-slide evolution with some success. The main goal of this chapter was to provide a general view of SPH applications for the analysis of flow-slide disasters including flow-like landslides, landslide-generated waves, and debris flows. The leading features of the proposed SPH models are detailed and the achievements are presented and discussed.

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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) through Grant No. 2012CB719803.

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  1. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

    Zili Dai & Yu Huang

  2. Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, People’s Republic of China

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Dai, Z., Huang, Y. (2015). The State of the Art of SPH Modelling for Flow-slide Propagation. In: Scaioni, M. (eds) Modern Technologies for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45931-7_8

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