Half-scale experimental study of rockfall impacts on sandy slopes

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1981-1993

  Labiouse, V ^a   Heidenreich, B ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Lombardi Engineering   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINEMATICS; ROCK BLOCK; ROCKFALL; SANDY SOIL; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 77950366889     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-1981-2009     Document Type: Article

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