Rockfall susceptibility analysis in the coastal cliffs of Algarve: an application of the Rock Engineering System (RES) method

Authors

  • José Viegas Universidade do Algarve
  • Luís Andrade Pais Universidade da Beira Interior

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_24_3

Keywords:

Rocky sea cliffs, instability, interaction matrix

Abstract

This paper presents an application of Rock Engineering System method in an attempt to reveal and assess the inherent instability potential along the Algarve rocky coast, which evolves through intermittent and discontinuous events of slope mass movements. The main objective has been defining the principal causative and triggering factors responsible for the manifestation of cliff instability, quantify their interactions, obtain their weighted coefficients, and calculate the instability index, which refers to the inherent potential instability of each coastal cliff.

 

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_24_3

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Published

2017-03-30

Issue

No. 24 (2017): Multidisciplinaridade na análise das manifestações de risco

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