… performance of a flexible rockfall barrier along a mountain … rockfall barrier under investigation
was approximately 20,000 m 2 . Five typical failure modes of the flexible rockfall barrier …

… the block shapes … block shape SP3A, more than 95% of the blocks remain at the top of
the slope, including 5% that approach the EC11 barrier – hence a very marked effect of shape…

… of falling rocks on the basis of different rock sizes, rock shapes, and ground surfaces. A
laboratory experiment of rocks with various … a rockfall protective barrier at an appropriate location. …

… or polyhedral shape and cannot reproduce more complex rockfall scenarios encountered in
… barriers require large areas to construct and are unsightly. A typical flexible rockfall barrier is …

… of two types of rockfall barriers are reported. Rockfall barriers are designed to withstand …
FIGURE 8 Deformed shapes of MSE rockfall barrier after 1400-kJ impact (images at 0.05 sec…

… rockfall masses with rockfall protection barriers. In this paper, rockfall hazard determination,
rockfall analyses and rockfall … The properties, size and shape of the rock block and the shape …

… rockfall protection structures with a specific focus on a barrier intended for low kinetic energies
frequently encountered in the Alpine arc. This barrier … The shape of the symbols indicates …

… To mitigate the rockfall impact, protection structures such as reinforced concrete/rock sheds,
… four different blocks used in this study are also labeled in Fig. 2. The mass of all the blocks is …

… The aforementioned parametrical analysis are related with the block shape, impact location
… In this paper two Finite Element models of rockfall barriers IBT-150 and IBT-500 have been …

… , we evaluate H at different locations z, ie, at the level of protection barriers and on the basis
… Given the parallelepiped shapes of rocks, we estimated volume based on the length of their …