Slit-type barriers serve as active countermeasures against debris flow. However, the
dynamic interaction between debris flows and slit-type barriers is extremely complicated. To …

Debris flows are rapid gravity-driven unsteady flows of highly concentrated mixtures of water
and solid particle material, destroying numerous mountain building structures and traffic …

Boulders entrained in debris flow induce high impact forces on a rigid barrier. In current
design practice, the concentrated load from boulders is estimated using the Hertz equation …

In-depth understanding of debris-structure interaction is hindered by a lack of physical data
of debris flow impacting structures. This study reports a set of centrifuge experiments …

Flexible barriers have been widely adopted to mitigate the debris flow disasters. However,
the research on the coupled interaction analysis between flexible barriers and debris flows …

Flexible barriers are an effective type of mitigation measure against debris avalanches in
valleys and can affect the kinetic energy and mass of debris avalanches. To investigate the …

Landslide risks arising from boulder falls and debris flows are commonly mitigated using
rigid and flexible barriers. Debris–barrier interaction is a complicated process, so current …

The numerical modelling of natural disasters such as landslides presents several
challenges for conventional mesh-based methods such as the finite element method (FEM) …

The study of landslide initiation mechanisms and dynamic process analysis is important for
monitoring, predicting, and controlling landslide occurrence. A giant landslide that occurred …

The use of steel flexible barriers to mitigate landslide risk on natural hillsides is becoming
common in the past decade in Hong Kong. The current design approach for this kind of …