Landslides induced by slaking of geomaterial

Abstract

The geological event that happens because of an unbalance between shear strength and shear stress on rock mass is known as a landslide. This usually occurs due to improper handling of the exposed material. The landslide occurs because of the reaction to reduce the burden it bears so that the mass of the rock will move rock mass from the higher elevation to lower elevation. Many landslides, in west Java, Indonesia occurred on exposed clay shale that is protected by soldier pile with 3m in distance between pile. On top of the clay shale, there is a building which gives an additional load on the clay shale. To determine the effect of water and temperature on clay shale, static slaking index test was conducted. With a submerge variation, it was found that the slaking index value ranged from 2.17% to 12.0% with the slaking classification from very low to medium. The size distribution was produced from 1/4 and 1/2 sample submerge show bigger rock breakage than rock with 3/4 sample submerge and sample fully submerge. Observations of the sample in room temperature without contact of water and no additional mass were also done. The sample was still intact until the end of research work.