… 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 …

… rockfalls of different shapes, trajectories and motion characteristics. It means that the actual
impact cases can be substantially different … the block size, the velocity direction and the block …

… but rather a range of critical energies corresponding to different block sizes. In particular, …
The contours of principal stresses reveal a cross-shaped pattern in which the largest stresses …

… or polyhedral shape and cannot reproduce more complex rockfall scenarios … block is
dropped from a fixed height above the barrier. The height controls the energy level of the block. …

… multiple cave-in rockfall disasters that damaged the flexible … “C”-shaped compression
buckling and “S”-shaped bending and … The flexible rockfall barrier intercepted most of the blocks, …

… modelling validated by several experimental tests that include … capacity of rockfall barriers
to withstand impact from blocks, and… a net panel (of quadrangular shape with length and width …

… long service life, can effectively block the collapse of the slope… shape will change and the
area will decrease as the rockfall … in different connections of active flexible protection network …

… where the level difference between rockfall sources was … 12, arc-shaped steel plates are
adopted to construct the saddles … module and then releasing the block freely, which generated a …

… impact response of flexible rockfall protection barriers. In this purpose, two different models
are … This modifies the shape of the complete structure favouring a direct transfer of the forces …

… capacity of the respective rockfall barrier. The impact energy E … the protection systems are
now tested using similarly shaped … 2: Different loading percentage of a rockfall barrier due to a “…