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- Title: THE ROLE OF SLOPE ANGLE IN SKIER-TRIGGERED SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Stephan Harvey, Alec van Herwijnen, Yannik Werner, Valentin Adam
- Description: Slope angle is a key factor in dry-slab avalanche formation and central to avalanche education and terrain assessment. Combined with the avalanche dan...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_FS2.4.pdf
- Keywords: slope angle, slab avalanche release, failure initiation, crack propagation, friction, skier triggering
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- Title: A REVIEW OF AVALANCHE RELEASE MECHANISMS: FROM ANTICRACK PROPAGATION TO SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches are responsible for most avalanche fatalities, making understanding of release mechanisms essential for forecasting and hazar...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.1.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, avalanche release, weak layer, failure initiation, crack propagation, anticrack, supershear fracture, slab fracture.
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- Title: STABILITY CHANGES AFTER WEAK LAYER COLLAPSE: INSIGHTS FROM AN UNEXPECTED DATASET
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Andrea Bruckmeier, Erika Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Alex Marienthal, Erich Peitzsch, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: While conducting avalanche mitigation or traveling through the backcountry, avalanche professionals sometimes experience a "whumpf": a collapse-mode c...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.3.pdf
- Keywords: whumpf, crack propagation, propagation saw test (pst), snowpack stability, avalanche release
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- Title: Slab Fractures during Dynamic Crack Propagation in Dry-Snow Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Francis Meloche, Bertil Trottet, Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume
- Description: Predicting the size of dry-snow slab avalanches remains difficult, limiting hazard assessment despite major advances in the understanding of crack ini...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.7.pdf
- Keywords: slab fracture, crack propagation, avalanche size, release size index
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- Title: ON HOW THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES AFFECTS FAILURE INITIATION AND CRACK PROPAGATION IN DRY-SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE FORMATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Christoph Mitterer
- Description: In the European Alps, the avalanche situation in winter 2025/26 was dominated by persistent weak layers. Very many dry-snow slab avalanches were trigg...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O4.6.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, failure initiation, crack propagation, snow stability, weak layer, strength, toughness
- View additional details about ON HOW THE TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF SLAB AND WEAK LAYER PROPERTIES AFFECTS FAILURE INITIATION AND CRACK PROPAGATION IN DRY-SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE FORMATION
- Title: FROM UAS SNOW DEPTH SURVEYS TO AVALANCHE RUNOUT: A MODEL CHAIN OF AVALANCHE RUNOUT FOR HIGHWAY FORECASTING OPERATIONS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Ryan Zarter, Valerie Foley, John Snook, Mike Cooperstein, Ethan Greene
- Description: Avalanche programs that protect highways need to know whether an avalanche in a specific path will reach the road. Forecasters estimate this from expe...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O7.3.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, runout modeling, uas, photogrammetry, snowpack modeling, crack propagation
- View additional details about FROM UAS SNOW DEPTH SURVEYS TO AVALANCHE RUNOUT: A MODEL CHAIN OF AVALANCHE RUNOUT FOR HIGHWAY FORECASTING OPERATIONS
- Title: DYNAMIC CRACK PROPAGATION SPEED TRANSITION IN MULTILAYER SYSTEMS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Shubo Zhang, Nicola M. Pugno
- Description: The dynamic propagation of cracks in solids is widely observed in nature, such as in snow avalanches. Pioneering studies have demonstrated that the up...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.35.pdf
- Keywords: dynamic crack propagation, snow avalanche, multilayer system.
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- Title: Numerical study of the feasibility of a downslope structure to limit avalanche size during avalanche control activity
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Francis Meloche, Ron Simenhois, Don Sharaf, Ethan Greene, Johan Gaume
- Description: Avalanche defense structures in starting zones are effective, but they are also expensive and visually intrusive; as a result, many highway programs i...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.51.pdf
- Keywords: crack arrest, avalanche mitigation structures, release size, numerical modelling, depth-averaged material-point-method.
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- Title: USING MODIFIED PROPAGATION SAW TESTS TO TRACK INCREMENTAL CHANGES IN SNOWPACK STABILITY
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Itai Sheleg, Bruce Jamieson, Karl W. Birkeland, Dave Gauthier, Ron Simenhois
- Description: Backcountry avalanche forecasters issue daily snowpack stability assessments to guide danger ratings and travel recommendations. Stability trends are ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.12.pdf
- Keywords: propagation saw test, crack propagation, snowpack stability, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: HUNTING MACH CONES IN SNOW:SUPERSHEAR FRACTURE & SHOCK FRONT REFRACTION IN LAYERED SLABS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Alexandre Pellet, Bastian Bergfeld, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume
- Description: Supershear crack propagation has recently been identified as an important mechanism in snow slab avalanche release. In this regime, the crack in the w...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.16.pdf
- Keywords: snow slab avalanche, crack propagation, supershear fracture, mach cone, weak layer, propagation saw test, snow stratigraphy.
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- Title: FLOWING FROM RELEASE TO RUNOUT: HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW AVALANCHES
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Anselm Köhler, Michael Neuhauser, Gregoire Bobillier, Jan-Thomas Fischer
- Description: Radar technology is indispensable in the context of snow avalanche monitoring. Practitioners
rely on the capabilities of related real-time detection ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O2.1.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, weak layer crack propagation speed, front velocity
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- Title: THE EFFECT OF SLOPE ANGLE ON CRITICAL CUT LENGTH MEASURED IN PROPAGATION SAW TESTS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Bastian Bergfeld, Valentin Adam, Philipp L. Rosendahl, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Assessing avalanche triggering potential requires detailed information on failure initiation and crack propagation. The propagation saw test (PST) is ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.12.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, propagation saw test, edge effect, failure initiation, crack propagation
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- Title: EXPERIMENTS ON SELF-SUSTAINED CRACK PROPAGATION IN AVALANCHES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Bastian Bergfeld, Melin Walet, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: If a slab avalanche is triggered, how big will it be? This question is crucial for avalanche forecasters and backcountry travelers alike, yet it is di...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche release, fracture mechanics, avalanche size, dynamic crack propagation, supershear
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- Title: ON STABILITY MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Christoph Mitterer, Fabiano Monti, Stephanie Mayer
- Description: Recent developments in snow stability modeling demonstrated the great potential of numerical snow cover modeling for avalanche forecasting. The recent...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.31.pdf
- Keywords: snow stability, avalanche forecasting, numerical modeling, failure initiation, crack propagation
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- Title: WHAT COULD STOP DYNAMIC CRACK PROPAGATION IN DRY SNOW SLAB AVALANCHES?
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Francis Meloche, Grégoire Bobilier, Louis Guillet, Francis Gauthier, Alexandre Langlois, Johan Gaume
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanches are difficult to predict. The release process of dry-snow slab avalanche begins with an initial failure within a buried weak ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.57.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche release size, dynamic crack propagation, crack arrest, dampm, material point method, weak layer, slab, fracture
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