When lifelines like highways and roadways have to be protected against rockfall, rock sheds
are one of the possible protection measure. They consist of reinforced or prestressed …

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

Rockfall galleries are built to protect local infrastructure and lifelines against rockfall events.
They are covered usually with a soil layer, sometimes for aesthetical reasons but also for …

In order to establish a performance-based impact resistant design procedure for rockfall
protection galleries, falling-weight impact tests of a full-scale gallery specimen were …

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 …

Rockfall impact energies can reach magnitudes of the order of millions of Joules, requiring
understanding of the energy absorption mechanisms at high energy levels for improved …

Rock-sheds are widely used to protect roads in mountainous areas. Generally, a soil
cushion is placed on the rock-shed slab to distribute impact forces and absorb energy …

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 …

This paper investigates experimentally and numerically the phenomenon of boulder impacts
on granular soils typically used to reduce loads on shelters. Four series of full scale tests …

Real-scale impact experiments have been conducted on a rockfall protection embankment,
over the 200–2,200 kJ kinetic energy range. The structure was made of a two-layer …