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Landslide at Orleans, Ontario

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/20373789
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FormatText, Technical Report
Physical description24 p.
Subjectlandslides; clay soils; stability; shear strength
Abstract
Studies of landslides in the Ottawa area have indicated that the clay involved in the failure was not an intact clay, but one containing a system of fissures. This paper deals with one of the cases studied, in which a 35-ft cut slope for a roadway failed five years after construction. Good agreement was achieved between the strength derived from the field study and the strength measured in the laboratory using the triaxial apparatus with low confining stresses.
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PublisherNational Research Council of Canada
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  • Technical Paper (National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research), no. DBR-TP-321.
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedNo
NRC numberNRCC 11856
NRC-IRC-20
NPARC number20373789
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Record created2012-07-23
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