Slope Failure Due to Effect of Damrey Typhoon in Penang Island

Abstract

The monsoon season in month of November till December in
2017 has left Penang Island in devastated conditions where, hill
slope landslide, erosion and flood took place around Penang.
This was a monsoon season, however these occurrences were
not normal and Penang has accounted many slope failure,
building construction collapse and flash floods. A series of failure
occurred at the surrounding slope at USM has occurred over the
past 10 years and therefore remedial work were carry out to
improve the slope on site. During the seasonal rainfalls, the slope
was heavily eroded and all the trees and grouted slope which
was in placed before, fail to sustain from the water movement.
Then a series of Soil Resistivity test on site was then explored to
foresee the major problems and to counter the stability. By doing
this investigation, the purpose is to understand, analyse and
rectify the situation of slope failure. From this study, we have
conducted the soil mapping of the ground to further understand
the soil condition so that all the