A Highly Sensitive Transducer for Landslide Monitoring

The paper presents construction details and experimental characteristics of a transducer devoted to measuring soil displacement during landslides. It consists of a flexible rod on which special highly sensitive strain gages are glued so that rod deformation can be accurately measured. Beside its high sensitivity, the transducer is also characterized by the possibility of measuring soil levels displacements in depth, being thus useful for geologists to study the structure and dynamics of such a phenomenon.