Structural monitoring by inverse velocity techniques deals with the monitoring and forecasting of structural failures in civil infrastructures (in our case, cultural heritage structures) based on a landslide prediction algorithm. The algorithm is the result of the observation of small landslides recreated in prototype form in a laboratory setting which led to the recognition that, when plotting the inverse velocity versus time, the values of inverse velocity approached zero, as the velocity of surface displacement increased towards final slope failure.
The picture below shows the predicted landslide time to failure.
