Critical energy release rates of weak snowpack layers determined in field experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Sigrist, Christian ^a   Schweizer, Jürg ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY RELEASE RATE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CRITICAL ENERGY RELEASE RATE; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; WEAK SNOWPACK LAYERS;

SNOW;

DEFORMATION; ENERGY FLUX; FIELD METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SIMULATION; SNOWPACK; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 34548039257     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028576     Document Type: Article

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