ABSTRACT
This methodology is then applied to a hillside area in Itaperuna city in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where several cases of sliding have been reported recently, with casualties.
2 FUZZY LOGIC
Fuzzy Logic is the only mathematical theory with capability of processing linguistic terms. Despite the fact that Fuzzy Logic was developed three decades ago (Zadeh 1975, Sundararajan 1998), its use in Geotechnical Engineering is still incipient.
