The May 25th 2011 railroad embankment failure in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a means for teaching geotechnical engineering

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The May 25th 2011 railroad embankment failure in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a means for teaching geotechnical engineering

A 30-m long railroad embankment failure that occurred on May 25 2011 in the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is presented. Emphasis is given on the field observations of the failure, the characterization of the site conditions and the seepage and slope stability analyses, all of which represent importan...

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Main Authors:	Zekkos, Dimitrios, Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Adda, Grizi, Athena, Greenwood, William
Format:	Article
Published:	International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2016
Subjects:	education; embankment; stability; seepage; railroad; site characterization
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50912/

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