This paper presents a new numerical strategy for the design and verification of flexible
falling rock barriers: passive protection measures for risk mitigation of potentially unstable …

Falling rock protection barriers, flexible metallic structures conceived to intercept and stop
falling blocks, are now widely used. Nonetheless, their complex behaviour has not been fully …

Full-scale impact tests, carried out to evaluate the behaviour of flexible falling rock protection
barriers, are described and relevant results presented and discussed. Falling rock protection …

A numerical approach has been recently devised by the authors for the modelling of falling
rock protection barriers, metallic structures used as passive measures against rockfall …

The paper presents a new approach to assess the effecctiveness of rockfall protection
barriers, accounting for the wide variety of impact conditions observed on natural sites. This …

The widespread use of net barriers, which are flexible, as opposed to rigid, devices for
intercepting falling rocks has led to the need for rigorous design criteria based on safe and …

Today's flexible rockfall protection barriers have reached a high development stage. An
extension of their maximum rockfall retaining capacity of momentary 3000 kJ requires a …

The paper addresses the response of a semi-rigid rockfall protection barrier using numerical
models. The study show a large dependence of the barrier response to the impact …

This paper investigates the dynamic response of low energy, semi-rigid rockfall barriers. The
study is based on a FE model that reproduces the geometry, components and connections …

Semi-rigid rockfall protection barriers are steel structures constituted by a principal
interception structure made of cables mounted on structural steel posts fully restrained to the …