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 …

Flexible rockfall barriers have been widely used to mitigate rockfalls and protect residential
buildings, railroads and highways from such natural hazard. Evaluation of the performance …

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 …

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 companion paper proposed an analytical solution for design of flexible rockfall barrier
undergoing large deflection. The part one also reported that the elongation of energy …

The flexible rockfall barrier system exhibits large deflection and complex contact behaviors
such that sophisticated finite element method and full-scale test are widely used to design …

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 …

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 …

Currently, there is no effective analysis algorithm to calculate and evaluate the residual
performance of flexible barriers after suffering rockfall impact. To solve this problem, a novel …