Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes

Smethurst, J.A.; Smith, A.; Uhlemann, S.; Wooff, C.; Chambers, J.; Hughes, P.N.; Lenart, S.; Saroglou, H.; Springman, S.M.; Löfroth, H.; Hughes, D.

Abstract

Instrumentation is often used to monitor the performance of engineered infrastructure slopes. This paper looks at the current role of instrumentation and monitoring, including the reasons for monitoring infrastructure slopes, the instrumentation typically installed and parameters measured. The paper then investigates recent developments in technology and considers how these may change the way that monitoring is used in the future, and tries to summarize the barriers and challenges to greater use of instrumentation in slope engineering. The challenges relate to economics of instrumentation within a wider risk management system, a better understanding of the way in which slopes perform and/or lose performance, and the complexities of managing and making decisions from greater quantities of data.

Citation

Smethurst, J., Smith, A., Uhlemann, S., Wooff, C., Chambers, J., Hughes, P., …Hughes, D. (2017). Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 4, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 31, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 13, 2017
• Journal: Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
• Print ISSN: 1470-9236
• Publisher: The Geological Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 271-286
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1346327