Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes

Smethurst, J.A.; Smith, A.; Uhlemann, S.; Wooff, C.; Chambers, J.; Hughes, P.; Lenart, S.; Saroglou, H.; Springman, S. M.; Löfroth, H.; Hughes, D.. 2017 Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50 (3). 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080

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Abstract/Summary

Instrumentation is often used to monitor the performance of engineered infrastructure slopes. This paper looks at the current role of instrumentation and monitoring, including the reasons for monitoring infrastructure slopes, the instrumentation typically installed and parameters measured. The paper then investigates recent developments in technology and considers how these may change the way that monitoring is used in the future, and tries to summarize the barriers and challenges to greater use of instrumentation in slope engineering. The challenges relate to economics of instrumentation within a wider risk management system, a better understanding of the way in which slopes perform and/or lose performance, and the complexities of managing and making decisions from greater quantities of data

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080
ISSN:	1470-9236
Date made live:	18 Dec 2017 16:44 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518752

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080

ISSN:

1470-9236

Date made live:

18 Dec 2017 16:44 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518752