Analysis of run-up of granular avalanches against steep, adverse slopes and protective barriers

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 827-841

  Mancarella, Davide ^a   Hungr, Oldrich ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avalanches; Dynamic modeling; Hazard mitigation; Protective barriers; Rapid landslides

Indexed keywords

DRY SAND; DYNAMIC MODELING; EXPERIMENT AND ANALYSIS; FRICTION ANGLES; GRANULAR AVALANCHE; HAZARD MITIGATION; HAZARD MITIGATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEADING EDGE; NEW MODEL; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; PROTECTIVE BARRIER; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS;

LANDSLIDES; SHOCK WAVES;

EXPERIMENTS;

ALGORITHM; AVALANCHE; DIKE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INSTABILITY; LABORATORY METHOD; LANDSLIDE; SAND; SHOCK WAVE; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954932793     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/T09-143     Document Type: Article

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