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The relevance of rock shape over mass—implications for rockfall hazard assessments

Authors :
Andrin Caviezel
Adrian Ringenbach
Sophia E. Demmel
Claire E. Dinneen
Nora Krebs
Yves Bühler
Marc Christen
Guillaume Meyrat
Andreas Stoffel
Elisabeth Hafner
Lucie A. Eberhard
Daniel von Rickenbach
Kevin Simmler
Philipp Mayer
Pascal S. Niklaus
Thomas Birchler
Tim Aebi
Lukas Cavigelli
Michael Schaffner
Stefan Rickli
Christoph Schnetzler
Michele Magno
Luca Benini
Perry Bartelt
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2021.

Abstract

The awareness of rock shape dependence in rockfall hazard assessment is growing, but experimental and field studies are scarce. This study presents a large data set of induced single block rockfall events quantifying the influence of rock shape and mass on its complex kinematic behaviour.

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
12
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.10ef258739ba49e9b175376cea51a45c
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25794-y