Centrifugal model tests of the Lodalen landslide

Abstract

The slide which occurred at Lodalen, Oslo in 1954 was used to compare the behaviour of soil models tested in a centrifuge with a well-documented prototype event.The paper describes the centrifugal testing of three models prepared from block samples in which an attempt was made to simulate the stress history of the site. The results of these model tests are presented as an analogous prototype by the application of the simple scaling laws, which when compared with the actual prototype were found to present a realistic facsimile of the landslide.