Sentence examples for natural slopes from inspiring English sources

The 3D model is applied to two natural slopes prone to landslides located in Atakora mountains.

Vegetation is increasingly used to protect artificial and natural slopes against shallow landslides.

In 2008 the Hong Kong Government commenced a 10-year programme of assessing natural slopes potentially affecting existing developments.

In addition, steep natural slopes in this valley are prone to toe erosion resulting in stability problems.

Rainfall causes runoff and soil erosion in artificial and natural slopes and important insight may derive from quantitative physically-based models or laboratory tests.

Two failure modes of natural slopes are considered in this work, namely, long slope with phreatic surface parallel to the ground surface and slope with emerging phreatic surface.

Determining stability in natural slope is a challenging task due to its complex nature and heterogeneity of the slope material.

The terrain of a ski mountain is mostly determined by the natural slope, along with obstacles and snow conditions.

Most natural slope failures are induced by seepage and/or rainfall.

Natural slope angle, height and length were found to be less important.

They said this showed that the people were beginning to experiment with modifying their natural environments — cutting back the natural slope and creating a retaining wall.