Monitoring and failure mechanism interpretation of an unstable slope in Southern Switzerland based on terrestrial laser scanner

Andrea Pedrazzini, Antonio Abellan, Michel Jaboyedoff, Thierry Oppikofer

In the proceedings of: GEO2011: 64th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 5th Pan-American Conference on Teaching and Learning of Geotechnical Engineering

Session: Landslides

ABSTRACT: We present the application of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) for the monitoring and characterization of an active landslide area in Val Canaria (Ticino, Southern Swiss Alps). At catchment scale, the study area is affected by a large Deep Seated Gravitational Slope Deformation (DSGSD) area presenting, in the lower boundary, several retrogressive landslides active since the 1990s. Due to its frequent landslide events this area was periodically monitored by TLS since 2006. Periodic acquisitions provided new information on 3D displacements at the bottom of slope and the detection of centimetre to decimetre level scale changes (e.g. rockfall and pre-failure deformations). In October 2009, a major slope collapse occured at the bottom of the most unstable area. Based on the comparison between TLS data before and after the collapse, we carried out a detailed failure mechanism analysis and volume calculation.

RÉSUMÉ: Dans cette étude, lzone de tassement de grand ampleur qui présente à son pied plusieurs zones de glissement régressifs particulièrement m3 une analyse détaillée du mécanisme de rupture et du volume mobilisé.

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Andrea Pedrazzini; Antonio Abellan; Michel Jaboyedoff; Thierry Oppikofer (2011) Monitoring and failure mechanism interpretation of an unstable slope in Southern Switzerland based on terrestrial laser scanner in GEO2011. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Geotechnical Society.

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