Debris-flow disaster has caused large casualties and tremendous economic loss. Check
dams, flexible barriers, silt dams and baffle arrays are most used disaster prevention …

Debris flows are very dangerous phenomena claiming thousands of lives and millions of
Euros each year over the world. Disaster mitigation includes non-structural (hazard …

Structural countermeasures such as slit dams and check dams are widely installed in
mountainous regions to mitigate debris-flow hazards. However, current approaches adopted …

Field surveys of recent major flood events have emphasized the need for an in-depth
examination of debris loading. Debris loading occurs when solid objects entrained within the …

In field investigations of major flooding events, debris impact has been identified as a critical
load and has thus been included in various building codes, such as FEMA P-646 and …

Physical building vulnerability to debris flows is defined as the potential damage degree of
buildings for a given debris flow intensity. In this paper, the physical characteristics of both …

Debris flows occur in mountainous areas characterized by steep slope and occasional
severe rainstorms. The massive urbanization in these areas raised the importance of …

Quantitative risk assessments (QRAs) for landslide hazards are increasingly being executed
to determine an unmitigated level of risk and compare it with risk tolerance criteria set by the …

Debris-flow impact load is one of the key parameters for design of engineering
countermeasures. The multiple-surge load model is a remarkable progress in estimating the …

Debris loading during extreme flooding events has been documented by many post-tsunami
field surveys of disaster-stricken communities and, as such, it is now considered and …