Grant Agreement No.: 226479Grant Agreement • March 28th, 2011
Contract Type FiledMarch 28th, 2011This deliverable addresses as a summary of deliverable D1.2 the different key physical mechanisms in landslides and the mathematical frameworks that have been developed in the soil mechanics community to model the time-dependent processes of water flow, pore pressure dissipation and deformation in soil slopes. Guidelines are presented for landslide modelling which provide the user in the first place with some information on the utility of numerical codes. In the second place, these guidelines allow the user to identify the necessary code components for a given landslide problem, select the necessary and most important field data for the model and perform the modelling steps, including data pre-processing, the actual numerical calculation, as well as the post-processing of the results. The geomechanical codes used in the SafeLand project are evaluated with respect to the availability of components which are necessary or which allow to obtain additional expertise on different, particular