Theme Lecture – Physical and Numerical Modelling of Landslide-Structure-Interaction
Sabatino Cuomo, Assistant Professor, University of Salerno, Italy
The concern of scientists and populations towards landslides has been increasing in the last years because the effects of climate change are evident. Shorter and heavier rainfall events are expected, and frequency will increase as well. Thus, slope stability and potential damage to structures are topical issues. Fortunately, numerical modelling has experienced unprecedented developments in terms of novel formulations (e.g. meshless methods) and computational capability (GPU, parallelization, etc). This is the fundamental reason why Landslide-Structure-