@article{ref1,
title="Quick clay and landslides of clayey soils",
journal="Physical review letters",
year="2009",
author="Khaldoun, Asmae and Moller, Peder and Fall, Abdoulaye and Wegdam, Gerard and De Leeuw, Bert and Méheust, Yves and Otto Fossum, Jon and Bonn, Daniel",
volume="103",
number="18",
pages="188301-188301",
abstract="We study the rheology of quick clay, an unstable soil responsible for many landslides. We show that above a critical stress the material starts flowing abruptly with a very large viscosity decrease caused by the flow. This leads to avalanche behavior that accounts for the instability of quick clay soils. Reproducing landslides on a small scale in the laboratory shows that an additional factor that determines the violence of the slides is the inhomogeneity of the flow. We propose a simple yield stress model capable of reproducing the laboratory landslide data, allowing us to relate landslides to the measured rheology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-9007",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}