In Japan, rockfall protection galleries have been designed on the basis of the allowable
stress design concept. To establish a rational impact-resistant design procedure for the …

This paper addresses the response of rockfall protection embankments when exposed to a
rock impact. For this purpose, real-scale impact experiments were conducted with impact …

Rockfall protection galleries typically consist of reinforced or prestressed concrete slabs that
are covered by a granular cushion layer. In general, the cushion layer prolongs the contact …

A system of multiple degrees of freedom composed out of three masses and three springs
has been presented in 2008 for analyzing rockfall impacts on protective structures covered …

Infrastructures such as roads and railways as well as urbanised areas, in mountainside
regions, can frequently be endangered by rockfalls and, therefore, need to be protected …

A model for the design of rockfall protection sandwich structures is presented and evaluated
using results from real-scale experiments. The experiments consist of the impact by a 260 kg …

Rock sheds are usually covered by a soil layer used as a shock absorbing cushion. To
acquire a reasonable estimation of the impulsive design load and thus to obtain design …

This study deals with an innovative type of protection structure for gravity-driven natural
hazards such as landslides (slope failures, rockfalls, etc.) consisting of a vertical wall made …

This article investigates the impact response of a recently developed type of rockfall
protection structure, with reduced footprint and consisting of interconnected concrete blocks …

Gabion baskets are the preferred rockfall mitigation method from an economic,
environmental, and maintenance perspective due to their low cost to build, more natural …