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Although many studies have been carried out to validate the efficiency of these early warning systems, few studies have been carried out to investigate the tilting direction of tilt sensors at the slope surface, which have revealed controversial results in field monitoring. In this paper, the tilting direction and the pre-failure tilting behavior of slopes were studied by performing a series of model tests as well as two field tests. These tests were conducted under various testing conditions. Tilt sensors with different rod lengths were employed to investigate the mechanism of surface tilting. The test results show that the surface tilting measured by the tilt sensors with no rods and those with short rods located above the slip surface are consistent, while the tilting monitored by the tilt sensors with long rods implies an opposite rotational direction. These results are important references to understand the controversial surface tilting behavior in in situ landslide monitoring cases and imply the correlation between the depth of the slip surface of the slope and the surface tilting in in situ landslide monitoring cases, which can be used as the standard for tilt sensor installation in field monitoring.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20092662","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,7]],"date-time":"2020-05-07T03:10:38Z","timestamp":1588821038000},"page":"2662","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Investigation on Surface Tilting in the Failure Process of Shallow Landslides"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Shifan","family":"Qiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}]},{"given":"Chaobo","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}]},{"given":"Pengkun","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}]},{"given":"Junkun","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}]},{"given":"Taro","family":"Uchimura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan"}]},{"given":"Lin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chuo Kaihatsu Corporation, Nishiwaseda1-13-5, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8612, Japan"}]},{"given":"Junfeng","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan"}]},{"given":"Quan","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou 412000, China"}]},{"given":"Jiren","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"921","DOI":"10.1126\/science.238.4829.921","article-title":"Real-time landslide warning during heavy rainfall","volume":"238","author":"Keefer","year":"1987","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Okada, K. 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