Rockfall rebound: Comparison of detailed field experiments and alternative modelling approaches

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 656-665

  Bourrier, Franck ^a   Berger, Frédéric ^a   Tardif, Pascal ^a   Dorren, Luuk ^b   Hungr, Oldrich ^c  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTACT SURFACE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; LUMPED MASS; LUMPED MASS MODEL; RIGID BODY; ROCKFALL TRAJECTORY; ROCKFALLS; ROTATIONAL VELOCITY;

RIGID STRUCTURES;

ROCK BURSTS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; MODELING; ROCKFALL; SLOPE FAILURE;

EID: 84859880142     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3202     Document Type: Article

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