Anticrack nucleation as triggering mechanism for snow slab avalanches

Science

Volumn 321, Issue 5886, 2008, Pages 240-243

  Heierli, J ^a,b   Gumbsch, P ^b,c   Zaiser, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMESTONE; SNOW;

AVALANCHE; SLAB; SLOPE; SNOW; SNOWPACK;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DISASTER; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNOW AVALANCHE;

EID: 47249106082     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153948     Document Type: Article

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