Galleries are common structures to protect roads and railways from rockfall hazards. The
design concepts in recent guidelines are based on the application of a static equivalent …

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 …

Rockfall barriers are key protection systems in mountainous regions worldwide. They are
designed to intercept and capture falling rocks. Most systems are composed of flexible steel …

Rockfall is a natural hazard that needs to be rigorously managed along all the major road
and railways transport networks by identifying the most appropriate mitigation measures …

This paper proposes a method for improving the design of rockfall protection fences and
accounting for the variability of loading cases. It is based on a probabilistic reliability …

To investigate the nonlinear mechanical behavior of the wire‐ring net, this paper presents a
new numerical model that can collectively consider equivalence between numerical and …

Steel wire meshes are a key component of rockfall protection barriers. The efficiency in
reproducing the structure response with numerical methods relies upon the specific …

In this paper the results of a series of rockfall impact tests on a sheltering tunnel are
discussed. A reinforced-concrete (RC) sphere (mass 850 kg, diameter 0· 9 m) was dropped …

Highw< Jys in Colorado are being protected against rockfall hazard by a new flexible fence
developed in a 2-year program of prototype testing and dynamic analysis. The Flexpost …

Rockfall countermeasures are very important for maintaining safe and reliable rail transport
operations. The authors have recently developed a simple rockfall protection fence, which …