Nature Communications (Sep 2021)
The relevance of rock shape over mass—implications for rockfall hazard assessments
- Andrin Caviezel,
- Adrian Ringenbach,
- Sophia E. Demmel,
- Claire E. Dinneen,
- Nora Krebs,
- Yves Bühler,
- Marc Christen,
- Guillaume Meyrat,
- Andreas Stoffel,
- Elisabeth Hafner,
- Lucie A. Eberhard,
- Daniel von Rickenbach,
- Kevin Simmler,
- Philipp Mayer,
- Pascal S. Niklaus,
- Thomas Birchler,
- Tim Aebi,
- Lukas Cavigelli,
- Michael Schaffner,
- Stefan Rickli,
- Christoph Schnetzler,
- Michele Magno,
- Luca Benini,
- Perry Bartelt
Affiliations
- Andrin Caviezel
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Adrian Ringenbach
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Sophia E. Demmel
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Claire E. Dinneen
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Nora Krebs
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Yves Bühler
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Marc Christen
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Guillaume Meyrat
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Andreas Stoffel
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Elisabeth Hafner
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Lucie A. Eberhard
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Daniel von Rickenbach
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Kevin Simmler
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- Philipp Mayer
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Pascal S. Niklaus
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Thomas Birchler
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Tim Aebi
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Lukas Cavigelli
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Michael Schaffner
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Stefan Rickli
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Christoph Schnetzler
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Michele Magno
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Luca Benini
- ETH Zurich, Integrated Systems Lab IIS
- Perry Bartelt
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25794-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The awareness of rock shape dependence in rockfall hazard assessment is growing, but experimental and field studies are scarce. This study presents a large data set of induced single block rockfall events quantifying the influence of rock shape and mass on its complex kinematic behaviour.
