{"id":20727,"date":"2016-12-14T21:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=20727"},"modified":"2016-12-14T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:43:35","slug":"progressive-rock-failure-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/12\/14\/progressive-rock-failure-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Rock Failure – a meeting in Switzerland in June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The flyer for the Progressive Rock Failure symposium in June 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

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Progressive Rock Failure – a meeting in Switzerland in June 2017<\/h5>\n

One of the most interesting types of landslide are those driven by progressive rock failure. These landslides tend to show long periods of creep deformation that, in some cases, transitions into a paid failure event.\u00a0 Not all landslides go through this transition though, which means that hazard analysis for these failures is a problem.\u00a0 It is also clear that these failures may occur (and indeed often do occur) without a trigger, meaning that their behaviour can be quite hard to manage.\u00a0 However, there is also some evidence that at least some show characteristic patterns of acceleration before final collapse, which can be used to predict failure.\u00a0 Opinions differ as to the drivers for these processes.\u00a0 There are also uncertainties as to what underpins the changes in behaviour that these landslides exhibit – is there for example a critical strain at which failure begins?\u00a0 and if so, what determines this parameter?<\/p>\n

These issues are important not just for landslides.\u00a0 Progressive rock failure may be a key issue in tunnels, boreholes and mines.\u00a0 Thus there is a great deal to learn from getting together a diverse range of people interested in progressive rock failure, from both the academic and the applied field.<\/p>\n

ETH Zurich has decided to arrange such a meeting, which will be held from 5th to 8th June 2017.\u00a0 Pre-registration for this meeting is currently open.\u00a0 Details of this meeting are available at the Symposium Website<\/a>.\u00a0 In my view this is likely to be a great meeting – highly focused with a group of really top people in the field.\u00a0 This sort of meeting is the perfect complement to the mighty AGU Fall Meeting.\u00a0 I fully intend to be there.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the setting looks rather cool too!<\/p>\n

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The setting of the Progressive Rock Failure seminar in June 2017.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ETH in Zurich is organising a very exciting symposium on Progressive Rock Failure in June 2017 in Monte Verit\u00e0, Switzerland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":20733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,469,547,1220],"class_list":["post-20727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conference","tag-featured","tag-progressive-failure","tag-sswitzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}