Landslides. Investigation and mitigation / Оползни. Исследование и устранение последствий

Transportation Research Board reports that synthesize information related to landslides and rock fall span more than four decades. Previous reports have been widely used in the geotechnical engineering community as comprehensive, practical sources of information on landslides and their control. Among the most widely distributed of TRB publications, these reports have enjoyed wide international appeal and have been translated into several languages.
Recognizing the lack of a single source in the English language that covers the entire spectrum of issues related to landslides, the Transportation Research Board (then the Highway Research Board) created the Committee on Landslide Investigations in 1951. The efforts of that committee resulted in Special Report 29, Landslides and Engineering Practice, which was published in 1958.

In 1972 a task force was organized with members drawn from several of the committees within the Soils and Geology Group to undertake the revision of Special Report 29. This task force concluded that because of the large amount of new technical information available since the 1958 publication, the best course of action was to prepare a completely new report. Six years was required to prepare and publish TRB Special Report 176, Landslides: Analysis and Control. <...>