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Shallow, rain-induced landslides are often described with an infinite slope model, which considers the stresses acting on a slope’s slice to calculate the factor of safety. In this paper, a literature review is conducted to assess different approaches to this physically based method, considering the success of various assumptions about traditional slope stability. These may be used to mitigate the disaster caused by mass movements in the case study, the Northern shore of the state of São Paulo, in Brazil, which suffers a lot from shallow landslides. While most studies in the area have focused on the empirical prediction of landslides, mechanistic analysis backed by proper approximations could be of great benefit to the region.The use of critical values of pore-water pressure and sliding plane depth is recommended, along with study-specific measurement of constant cohesion and angle of internal friction. Computational methods of water infiltration, such as TRIGRS, have been proved to be accurate but are not recommended for wide-range use in the case study area.
Arthur Kui (Thu,) studied this question.