Development of Tools for the Analysis of Stability on Slopes with Potential Risk to Critical Infrastructures. XLIDE

The objective of the XLIDE project is the development of an innovative tool which can analyse and control the safety level of critical infrastructures vis-à-vis the stability of slopes in the surrounding area.

The XLIDE project aims to contribute to the improvement of slope stability analysis, with potential risk on critical infrastructures, by means of the test with novel technologies such as laser scanner and InSAR interferometric radar.

At the same time, the project simulates an eventual landslide on a dam, and the impact of the wave on the infrastructure and for this, develops in the framework of the finite element and finite element method (PFEM), a constitutive model for non- Newtonian modeling (Bingham fluid), the modeling of landslides with characteristics intermediate between those of a pure fluid and those of rigid blocks.

This project, directed and coordinated by OFITECO, has been developed in close collaboration with the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), the Chair of Dams and the Group of Mathematical Methods in Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and the Institute Of Geomatics. ADIF, the Hydrographic Confederation of the Ebro and Leica Geosystems have also participated.

FINANCING:

The project, which case number is IPT-2011-1287-370000, was funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, and by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and through the INNPACTO subprogramme under the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011.

The project that started at the end of 2011 ended successfully in December 2014.