Fracture toughness of dry snow slab avalanches from field measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  McClung, D M ^a   Schweizer, Jürg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LANDSLIDE; SHEAR STRENGTH; SNOW; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 34147098680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JF000403     Document Type: Article

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