Rigid barriers are commonly used as defense measures in hilly areas to contain falling
boulders and landslide debris, and the sliding displacement of these barriers is a key design …

Flexible barriers have been widely applied in rockfall mitigation in recent years. However,
the behavior of flexible barriers under the impact of boulders is still not fully understood. To …

Conventionally, flexible barriers are rated based on their ability to resist a free-falling
boulder with a particular input energy. However, there is still no well-accepted approach for …

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 …

Rigid barriers can be destroyed by the impact of rock boulders in rockfalls, landslides and
debris flows. An estimation for the maximum magnitude of the impact force is significant for …

Flexible ring nets exhibit complex nonlinear mechanical behaviour when subjected to static
and dynamic impact loads. This research presents the development of an efficient numerical …

Reinforced concrete barriers are commonly used as defence measures in hilly areas to
contain falling boulders and landslide debris. These barriers are conventionally designed to …

The impulse load of boulders at the front of debris flows is critical to the design of structural
defense measures, which are commonly constructed on hillsides to mitigate landslide risk …

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 steel barriers are commonly constructed on steep hillsides to mitigate rockfall. The
evaluation of the dynamic response of proprietary flexible barriers is conventionally …