Embankment Failure in Residual Soils at Nivsar, Ratnagiri

Juneja, Chatterjee and Kumar document a large-scale residual-soil embankment failure in coastal India following intense rainfall. The paper reconstructs geometry, stratigraphy and pore-pressure conditions, showing how tropical weathering, soil structure, and rapid infiltration led to a shallow translational failure. Back-analyses highlight the sensitivity of residual soils to suction loss, fissuring and hydraulic conductivity changes during monsoon events.