A systematic literature review on numerical strategies suitable to simulate defects and discontinuities in layered and sandwich structures is presented here. Particular care is given …
The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avalanche. The size of the crack in …
Snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak snow layer buried below a cohesive snow slab. After failure, the very porous character of the weak layer leads to its volumetric …
Snow is a highly porous material with properties that may strongly differ depending on the environmental conditions. On slopes, the layered snowpack may fail and avalanches occur …
Measurements of the mechanical properties of snow are essential for improving our understanding and the prediction of snow failure and hence avalanche release. We …
A snow slab avalanche releases after failure initiation and crack propagation in a highly porous weak snow layer buried below a cohesive slab. While our knowledge of crack …
L Guillet, L Blatny, B Trottet, D Steffen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow landslides pose a significant threat to people and infrastructure. Despite significant progress in the understanding of such phenomena, the evaluation of the size of the …
Using the analytical model presented in Part 1 of this two-part paper, a new conceptual understanding of anticrack nucleation in weak layers is proposed. To obtain a sufficient …
B Reuter, J Schweizer - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Snow instability is a generic term describing the propensity of a snow slope to avalanche. In need of a concise mechanics‐based concept we suggest a framework based on failure …