Abstract
It is an administrative requirement for a slope engineer to secure safety of construction for workers on-site, engineers, owners and citizens. Various monitoring systems have been built and used so far, but there have been no comprehensive way to meet an accountability of the performance of the slope monitoring system up to now.
This paper proposes a new way for slope engineers to design and quantitatively evaluate the performance of a slope monitoring system by using the fundamental concept stated in FMEA with a special interest in employment of the On-Site Visualization strategy. Case studies on an actual slope where a small-scale collapse actually occurred, together with a set of simulation of evaluating fictitious monitoring projects by experienced engineers, demonstrate that the proposed evaluation scheme gives a new way for slope engineers to design and evaluate a monitoring system to secure safety in a quantitative manner.
