The Effect of Highway Vibration to the Hills Slope Stability by an Integrated GPS-Vibration Data Processing

Abstract

Bandung-Jakarta, Indonesia highway have high density vehicles pass even often jammed. High activity of vehicles cause repeated vibrations and occur continuously. In case, the highway that divides the hills. The passing vehicles give rise repeatedly vibration and indicated disturbance of hillside slope stability. Vehicles vibration depend on speed, weight, number of vehicles and road construction materials. A method in question is counting a vehicle volume and determine the volume pattern of the vehicle. The magnitude of vibration is function of the object distance from the sources. The magnitude of the vibration effect is very dependent on the geological structure of hills formation. Hilly slope stability indicates experiencing interference if the object or material slope changes position or displacement. GPS observation give position changes and its displacement. The effect of Toll road vibration to slope stability is known by GPS and Vibration simultaneous measurement. Data acquisition used six unit GPS receivers and six unit vibration sensor which is installed on the hillside beside the highway. Integrated data processing techniques using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). Integrated GPS-Vibration data are implemented to find actual displacement which are caused by highway vibration.