… To fill this knowledge gap, this paper presents a closed-form analytical solution for calculating
the sliding displacement of a barrier following a boulder impact. The solution is derived by …

… of the impact force of a known large boulder is urgently … impact velocity, density and size
of the rock boulder as well as the constitutive relation of rock, to estimate the maximum impact …

… the boulder impact phenomenon … impact phenomenon, considering specifically the response
of a homogeneous stratum of granular soil subject to the impact of a spherical rigid boulder. …

… simple and inexpensive experimentation coupled with analytical modelling to fulfil the first
… in projected scenarios of boulder impact. Input parameters into the analytical model are: the …

… strains generated by the impact. Alongside the impact experiments, an analytical procedure
for guiding … Most of the solutions for the peak contact force (as presented in the literature for …

… to predict the boulder impact force by explicitly considering the debris-boulder interaction. …
Worth mentioning is that analytical models exist that can explicitly consider the plastic …

… After the first impact at 40 kJ, a maximum boulder impact force of 139 kN is measured. The
predicted boulder impact force using the … 6a) will eventually tend towards the elastic solution. …

… Because masonry is an anisotropic structural material composed of natural/artificial blocks
and mortar bonding layers, there exist few satisfactory analytical solutions that explicitly …

… is to give an analytical estimation of the impact force and the … The horizontal force due to
the boulder impact is balanced by … The solution of the equilibrium equations gives a minimum …

… During Test 3 vehicle impact, the AB granite boulder translated and rotated out of the
ground upon impact. The truck ramped over the flipped boulder and landed with the back axle …