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Metodologie geologiche
Alessandro Iannace, Antonio Pignalosa, Stefano Vitale
A detailed geological field investigation has been performed in the who-
le Project area, with particular emphasis on the two demonstrator areas
(Mt. San Liberatore and Vallone Olivieri). Two main geological layers have
been produced for the GIS, one for the bedrock and one for the recent cover
deposits. Several Formations, Members, and Lithofacies have been distin-
guished in the bedrock map, consisting of dolostones and limestones with
ages ranging from Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic. Also, tectonic features
have been investigated, including local mesoscale folds and several fractu-
re sets, which highlighted the complex history of contractional and exten-
sional tectonics. Seven types of recent cover deposits have been distin-
guished and mapped, integrating the fieldwork with morphological analy-
sis of satellite images and DEMs.
Metodologie idrogeologiche
Allocca V., Catani V., De Vita P., Esposito L., Fiorillo F., Limongiello M.
Among the other geohazards affecting infrastructures of the study area,
CIS-2020 Project deals with the assessment of interferences of groundwa-
ter circulation with underground infrastructures such as railway and road
tunnels. At this scope, based on results of the geological survey, carried out
during the project, and bibliographic data, hydrostratigraphic units were
identified and a conceptual hydrogeological model of groundwater circula-
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tion of the Salerno Mts. was reconstructed. Particular attention was paid to
bibliographic data regarding the construction of the Nocera-Salerno (Santa
Lucia) railway tunnel, finished in the ‘70s of the last century. This tunnel,
which caused a severe impact on groundwater circulation of the Salerno
Mts. carbonate aquifer determining a relevant drainage of groundwater re-
serves, a general lowering of piezometer levels and disappearance of many
springs.
The selected test area is a sector of Monte Sole close to Salerno town where
geomorphological factors controlling landslide susceptibility were identi-
fied. Subsequently, in order to define those landslide intensity characteri-
stics, a dynamic modelling of landslides that could potentially occur were
tried in the drainage sub-basins by using the model previously calibrated in
the Sarno/Quindici and Cervinara areas.
ties regarding the triggering phenomena, the run-out modelling and the
impact modelling. This paper is aimed at the modelling of the maximum
impact force due to the falling boulder taking explicitly into account the
geotechnical properties of the shock-absorbing soil cushion layer. To this
scope, a new impact model, called “Equivalent Foundation Impact Model”
(EFIM) is proposed. The main feature of the model is the use of the soil
properties which are most commonly adopted in the foundation’s enginee-
ring, i.e. the cohesion and the friction angle. Before presenting the new
model, the paper provides a critical review of the existing methods for pre-
dicting the impact force and a comparison with the available experimental
test results. Such a comparison shows that the EFIM model has accuracy
comparable to the most reliable empirical formulations with the advantage
of not requiring any calibration to the experimental evidence. This feature
is very important because it is expected that the accuracy of the model does
not worsen when new experimental test results are investigated.