LARAM School / 2009

Programme

INTRODUCTION

Bonnard (0.5 hours): Introduction to LARAM 2009

Cascini (1.0 hours): Introduction to landslide risk

SESSION I

"Landslide analysis using different approaches"

Corominas (2.0 hours): Landslides typology and classification. Geological analyses.

Cascini (2.0 hours): The geotechnical slope model.

SESSION II

"Risk Theory and Risk Analysis for Landslides"

Bonnard (1.5 hours): Introduction to session II and landslide vulnerability components.

Leroi (1.5 hours): Landslide risk framework and examples.

Corominas (2.0 hours): Assessment of landslide frequency.

Scavia (2.0 hours): Probabilistic approach to the assessment of rock slope stability (part I).

Corominas (1.5 hours): Risk analysis case study.

Leroi (1.5 hours): Landslide susceptibility and hazard.

Scavia (2.0 hours): Probabilistic approach to the assessment of rock slope stability (part II).

Leroi (2.0 hours): Landslide risk management at La Desirade Island.

Scavia (1.5 hours): A simplified GIS-based probabilistic methodology for the evaluation of the susceptibility of rock falls.

Nadim (1.5 hours): QRA theoretical aspects.

Bonnard (2.0 hours): Long-term efficiency of protection works and residual risks.

Nadim (2.0 hours): Deterministic and probabilistic methods for slope stability analysis.

Bonnard (1.5 hours): La Reunion case study tutorial.

 
EU actions in the field of landslides [2.5 hours]

Vermoote (1 hours): EU funded research activities in the field of landslides and the link with current European policy and strategies on natural hazards and disasters.

Nadim (1.5 hours): The "Safeland" FP7 Project.

 
Presentations by students [3.5 hours]

 
Tutorial on the Technical Visit [1.0 hours]

Cuomo (1.0 hours): Case study on landslides of the flow-type in pyroclastic soils

 
Technical Visit [5.0 hours]

SESSION III

"Landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk zoning: international experiences"

Cascini (5.0 hours): International guidelines for landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk zoning for land use planning. Suggested approaches for analyses at different scales. Tutorial on susceptibility, hazard and risk zoning at 1:25,000 scale. Statistical methods for landslide susceptibility and hazard zoning (Dr. Calvello).

Gori (4.0 hours): Landslide hazard and risk zoning at small scale: the USGS experience.

Chan (5.0 hours): Landslide risk zoning at large scale: the GEO experience.

 
Tutorial Session [2 hours]

Cuomo (1.0 hours): Case study on landslides of the flow-type in pyroclastic soils

Calvello (1.0 hours): Statistical methods for landslide susceptibility and hazard zoning

SESSION IV

"The role of sophisticated methods in landslide Risk analysis"

Cascini (1.0 hours): Introduction to advanced slope stability characterization.

Cotecchia (3 hours): The geomechanical approach to landslide hazard assessment - interpretation and modelling at different scales.

Pastor (3 hours): Mathematical modelling: triggering and propagation. Rheological modelling: a new constitutive model for unsaturated soils. Numerical modelling: initiation and propagation.

Sorbino (1.5 hours): Flow-like mass movements in pyroclastic soils: triggering mechanisms and some results on propagation stage.

Darve (2.5 hours): Failure in geomechanics. Finite element modelling of landslides.

SESSION V

"Landslide risk mitigation"

Sorbino (1.0 hours): The role of control works in the risk mitigation framework.

Hungr (3.5 hours): Slope stabilization techniques. Defensive measures against rock fall and rapid landslides.

Sorbino (1.5 hours): Remarks on control works for landslide risk reduction and some case histories.

Ferlisi (1.0 hours): Physical vulnerability to slow-moving landslides.

CONCLUDING REMARKS