… Little attention has been paid to the effects of the block shape on the impact force and …
the influence of the block shape on the dynamic response of flexible rockfall barriers. First, an …

… of rockfall protection such as barrier can be more effective when considering the kinetic
energies of such block … of rock block characteristics such as size, shape and initiation zones on …

… who deal with the design of rockfall protection barriers. … shape of potentially detachable
blocks depend on their values [34]. … Due to the heterogeneity of block shapes, two geometrical …

… of rockfall disasters. This paper presents a study on the tree barrier effect on rockfall based on
a three-… In this section, the block shape, slope shape and aluminum column distribution are …

… the block shapes … block shape SP3A, more than 95% of the blocks remain at the top of
the slope, including 5% that approach the EC11 barrier – hence a very marked effect of shape…

… , we evaluate H at different locations z, ie, at the level of protection barriers and on the basis
… Given the parallelepiped shapes of rocks, we estimated volume based on the length of their …

… selection aiming at the design of protection works. If, on the … block shape number defines
the family of shapes the block … , the block was always assumed to have a regular shape and …

… (ii) Another feature is relative to the re-mobilized blocks that, in … (iii) The role of the existing
rockfall barriers cannot be … information relative to the block (eg, size and shape) and the cliff (eg…

… fields of geotechnics, rockfall protection structures may be … method (FEM) and the finite
difference method (FDM), or using … The blocks are parallelepiped shaped volume elements with …

… Rockfall protection embankments are efficient to protect elements at risk against rockfall. …
The observed V shape of the wall post-impact is reproduced with a maximal displacement …