Eurocode 7 and rock engineering design: The case of rockfall protection barriers

F Vagnon, S Bonetto, AM Ferrero, JP Harrison, G Umili - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
design has proven to be difficult. In this paper, the authors focus on the way to apply EC7
principles to rock engineering design by analyzing the design of rockfall protection structures …

Probabilistic approach for design optimization of rockfall protective barriers

P Paronuzzi - Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and …, 1989 - lyellcollection.org
… In designing rockfall protective barriers it is necessary to … rock block trajectories and (iii)
impact strength of the barrier … that a rock mass may go beyond the barrier (failure or overfly…

Key issues in rock fall modeling, hazard and risk assessment for rockfall protection

GB Crosta, F Agliardi, P Frattini, S Lari - Engineering Geology for Society …, 2015 - Springer
… of multiple impacts is low), rockfall flexible barriers provide adequate protection against …
In: Proceedings of ISRM international symposium on rock engineering for mountainous …

[PDF][PDF] Rockfall hazard analyses and rockfall protection along the Adriatic coast of Croatia

Z Arbanas, M Grosic, D Udovic… - Journal of civil engineering …, 2012 - academia.edu
protection designs for rockfall protection systems at … rockfall mass with rockfall protection
barriers. In this paper, the Croatian experiences on rockfall hazard determination, rockfall

Development of effective rockfall barriers

G Hearn, RK Barrett, HH Henson - … of transportation engineering, 1995 - ascelibrary.org
… in the selection of a barrier. Engineering design of rockfall barriers is relatively new. Apart
from … Today, Colorado is equipped to assess, modify, and design rockfall barrier structures for …

Design of rockfall protection embankments: a review

S Lambert, F Bourrier - Engineering geology, 2013 - Elsevier
… features in the design of rockfall protection embankments and highlights the limitations of the
methods used today. Rockfall simulation codes lack of … Protective barriers against rockfall

A factor strength approach for the design of rock fall and debris flow barriers

F Vagnon, AM Ferrero, G Umili, A Segalini - … and Geological Engineering, 2017 - Springer
… There is a lack of partial factors for rock engineering, and this renders the various analytical
… used for rockfall barrier design is not suitable and applicable to debris flow barriers and a …

Design of falling rock protection barriers using numerical models

C Gentilini, G Gottardi, L Govoni, A Mentani… - Engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
… 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. …

Strategy for the foundation design of rockfall barriers

G Giacchetti, A Grimod, D Peila - Engineering Geology for Society and …, 2015 - Springer
… remains quite uncertain and requires a certain degree of engineeringrockfall barrier
designs. In the reality, several practical problems must be taken into account: rockfall barriers are …

An evaluation of the performance of rock fall protection measures and their role in hazard zoning

CJ Jaccard, JM Abbruzzese, EP Howald - Natural Hazards, 2020 - Springer
… would, at the same time, include barriers with interesting features in view of the … barriers
already impacted by rock fall events, barriers situated in proximity of a stream or torrent, barriers