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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2007.23.7.5

Geophysical Techniques for Underwater Landslide Monitoring  

Truong, Q. Hung (Civil, Environ. and Arch. Engrg., Korea Univ.)
Lee, Chang-Ho (Civil, Environ. and Arch. Engrg., Korea Univ.)
Lee, Jong-Sub (Civil, Environ. and Arch. Engrg., Korea Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.23, no.7, 2007 , pp. 5-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
The monitoring and investigation of underwater landslide help to understand its mechanism, increase the usefuless of design and construction and reduce the losses. This paper presents three high resolution geophysical techniques electrical resisitance, ultrasonic wave reflection imaging, and shear wave tomography conducted to determine the lab-scaled submerged landslide. Electrical resistance profiles of a soil mass obtained by an electrical resistance probe provide detailed information to assess the spatial distribution of the soil mass with milimetric resolution. An ultrasonic wave image obtained by recording the reflections from interfaces of different impedance materials permits detecting layers and landslide with submilimetric resolution. The pixel based image of immersed landslides is created by the inversion of the boundary information achieved from the traveling time of shear waves. The experimental results show that the ultrasonic wave imaging and the electrical resistance can provide complementary information; and their association with S-wave tomography image can produce a 3-D view of the underwater landslide. This study suggests that geophysical techniques may be effective tools for the detection of the underwater landslides and spatial distribution offshore.
Keywords
Electrical resistance; Impedance mismatch; Shear waves; Tomography; Ultrasonic reflection; Underwater landslides;
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