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The paper presents the results of some experimental tests reproducing the triggering mechanism of a special kind of shallow landslides induced by rainfalls (soil slip) in a physical 1-g model. The experimental data have been employed to verify the capability of a simplified stability model to describe the phenomenon and to back-analyse its occurrence in a case history (Pizzo d’Alvano, Campania Region 1998). The method enables a direct correlation between the safety factor of a slope and rainfall intensity, as well as antecedent rainfalls.
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The authors acknowledge support for this work from Italian MIUR COFIN 2001 and from EC Funding (Spinner Project 2005).
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Montrasio, L., Valentino, R. Experimental analysis and modelling of shallow landslides. Landslides 4, 291–296 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-007-0082-3
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