Newsletter December 2015

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What's inside the new "monitoring house"?

NHAZCA has recently started a new monitoring activity in a very wild site, where a new dedicated monitoring house has been built and equipped with every comfort: electric power, internet connection, air conditioning, etc.

Can you guess "who lives" inside it?

Call for presentations - Third International Course on Geotechnical and Structural Monitoring

Are you interested in sharing your experience, challenging projects and new trends in geotechnical and structural monitoring? The call for presentation is now open!

During the next edition of the course, some sessions will be dedicated to presentations given by partners and participants on case histories, lessons learned and new trends.

Hurry to submit your abstract* at info@geotechnicalmonitoring.com! The deadline is February 29th 2016.

More information at: www.geotechnicalmonitoring.com

*The abstract may not be longer than 250 words and must be submitted and presented in English.

NHAZCA at the TRB 95th annual Meeting in Washington

Paolo Mazzanti (CEO of NHAZCA) will be invited lecturer at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 95th Annual Meeting, that will be held on January 10–14th 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (Washington, D.C.).
The event is expected to attract more than 12.000 transportation experts from all around the world. The program will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2016 meeting: Research Convergence for a Multimodal Future.

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Landslide failure prediction

Can the time of failure of landslides be predicted? Which kind of predictive models can be used? Is the continuous monitoring of displacement a useful tool?
You can find answers to some of these questions in the paper "A field experiment for calibrating landslide time-of-failure prediction functions" by Bozzano F., Cipriani I., Mazzanti P. & Prestininzi A., published in the prestigious "International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences"