… The need for protection against rockfall has led to the development of different types of …
and discussed and a net fence design procedure for protection against rockfall is provided. …

… Different modeling approaches, calibration problems, dependency … practitioners involved in
projects dealing with rockfall protection. … Wong, RH, Ho, KW and Chau, KT: 2000, Shape and …

… blocks, several techniques (rock bolts, barriers, shotcrete, mesh, tunnels, trimming etc.) have
been used. In this study, barrier options were considered in rock fall analysis to protect from …

… Finally, we observed that the capability of the protection barriers to stop rockfalls of up to a
… For unfragmented rockfalls, W r is the width of the fallen rock block assuming a cubic shape. …

… It is well known that the block shape significantly affects the … is common in rockfall trajectory
simulation programs, where a block is … Various rockfall protection technologies have been …

… on that area were marked, their x, y and z coordinates were measured, volume and shape
were measured and classifications of blocks were done depending of its instability type. …

… The impact energy exerted by the falling rocks on the barrier was also studied considering …
Effects of the shape, size and density of rock blocks on the rockfall parameters were analyzed …

… Cubical shaped gabion boxes with a side length of 100 mm were fabricated using this type …
scaled down version of a common 500 mm cubical shape gabion box (with the wire diameter, …

… fence was built to provide protection from rockfalls in Shikanoshima, Fukuoka. However, several
… the runout distance of a falling block as a function of block shape has been investigated. …

… Several modules of the 1500 kJ rated rockfall barrier located just … , and the blocks retained
at the rockfall barriers. The fragmentation … assuming a cubic shape (table 3). For fragmental …