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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The design of todays state-of-the-art rockfall barriers is currently based on experience and
time consuming experimentation. Advanced simulation models are now under development …

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 …

Rock falls can be a public safety issue; this book provides comprehensive information on the
identification of these hazards related to geology, climate and topography, and the design …

This article proposes a procedure for developing tools to quantify the on-site efficiency of
any rockfall barrier. This procedure relies on meta-modeling techniques to predict the barrier …