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 …

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 …

This paper illustrates the experimental test procedure and results of two flexible barriers of
low and medium energy, the so-called IBT-150 and IBT-500. For this purpose, ETAG 027 …

This paper proposes an effective design approach for quickly determining the specification,
size and amount of components of a flexible rockfall protection barrier structure. The …

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 …

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 …

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 …

To study the mechanical behaviour of the flexible rockfall protection barriers under impact
load, four full-scale impact tests involving protection capacities of 750 kJ and 2000 kJ were …