Natural Geo-Disasters and Resiliency

PART I: Climate Change Related Natural Disasters.- Chapter 1. AI Based Slope Hazard Analysis of 2011 Niigata-Fukushima Heavy Rainfall Disaster in Japan.- Chapter 2. An Experimental Study of The Distance Effect Away from Earthquake Fault on the Soil Deformation Characteristics.- Chapter 3. An Experimental Study on the Effect of Herbaceous Plants against Concentrated Flow using RGB Image Analysis.- Chapter 4. An Experimental Study on the Phenomenon of Increase in Earth Pressure Acting on Integral Bridge Subjected to Reciprocal Load.- Chapter 5. Applicability and Effectiveness of Sheet-Type Sensors in Locating the Slip Failure During Seepage Through Embankments.- Chapter 6. Assessment of Landslide Potential for a Large-Area Forested Slope.- Chapter 7. Centrifugal Tilting Tests on Vertical Reinforcement of the Dry Masonry Retaining Wall.- Chapter 8. Centrifuge Modeling on Capture Performance of Tilted Open Type Sabo Dam.- Chapter 9. Characteristics of Debris Flow that Crosses Bhutanâs Mountain Roads and its Countermeasures.- Chapter 10. Effect of Grain Size Distribution of Bed Materials on Destabilization of a River Pier Due to Local Scour. etc.

Prof. Hemanta Hazarika is currently a professor in the Graduate School of Engineering and Department of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Professor Hazarika's research activities include disaster prevention and mitigation, soil-structure interaction, stability of soil-structures during earthquakes and tsunami, ground improvement, application of recycled waste and lightweight materials in constructions, stability of cut slopes, and landslides and their protection.He has more than 350 technical papers in various international journals, international conferences, workshops and symposia to date. He has also authored two textbooks on soil mechanics and their Japanese versions. In addition, Prof. Hazarika served as the editor of six books on diverse topics. Prof. Hazarika has several years of experience in teaching, research as well as geotechnical practice and consulting both within and outside Japan. He is currently a foreign expert of the world's first research center in Palu, Indonesia on liquefaction research called "The National Research Center for Liquefaction." Currently, Prof. Hazarika is the chairman of Asian Technical Committee on "Geotechnical Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change-induced Geo-disasters in Asia-Pacific Regions" of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He is also Founding President of a general incorporated corporation called GLOSS (Global Society for Smart Geo-Sustainnovation).
Prof. Stuart Haigh is a professor in Geotechnical Engineering at Cambridge University and a fellow of Trinity College. In addition, Prof. Stuart Haigh is Assistant Director of the Schofield Centre. He has a wide range of research interests centered around physical modelling at 1g and utilizing centrifuges and numerical modelling using FE and MPM. His 25 years of experience in developing complex centrifuge experiments includes developing earthquake actuators, high-g robots, and an