*** Sand samples laboratory investigations from Heerlen landslide experiment ***
Corresponding author: Bolognin Marco

TU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, 
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk

Contact Information:

bolognin.marco@gmail.com

***General Introduction***
This dataset contains the soil laboratory investigation recorded during slope failure 
experiments in the Heerlen sand quarry in Netherlands, as part of Bolognin Marco's 
PhD Thesis project.

It is being made public both to act as supplementary data for publications and the PhD
thesis of Bolognin Marco and in order for other researchers to use this data in their own
work.

The data in this data set was collected in 2018.

This research project was made possible by the NWO grant (13889) 
MPM-Flow Project: Understanding flow slides in flood defences

***Purpose of the test campaign***
The purpose of these laboratory investigation was to characterize the sandy slope material 
prior to monitoring a landslide experiment during sand mining activities. The resulting 
dataset has the aim to support the Material Point Method numerical model in the Anura3D software
for its validation against field data.

***Test equipment***
The Direct Simple Shear testing apparatus were made available by 'the Geotechnical Laboratory' of 
Université de Liège and TU Delft. The grain size distribution investigation were performed with 
standard apparatus by the Université de Liège.

***Description of the data in this data set***
The xlsx files in the folder '(Delft_Wim)data_shear_box_test_Heerlen' contains the DDS results
from the laboratory investigation performed in TU Delft on 3 hand drilled sand samples from the
location of the experiment. For convenience they are combined in the file FiguresThesis.xlsx

the pdf files contained in the folder 'First_geot._parameters_Heerlen_sand' contains the reports
of Grain Size Distributions and DSS investigations performed in Université de Liège.
