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Title: Discrete Element Modeling of Crack Propagation in Weak Snowpack Layers
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Guillaume Chambon, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches are generally caused by a sequence of fracture processes including (1) failure initiation in a weak snow layer underlying a c...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O6.02.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, pst, discrete element modeling, slab, weak layer
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Title: On the Failure Criterion of Weak Snowpack Layers Using the Discrete Element Method
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Johan Gaume, Guillaume Chambon, Ingrid Reiweger, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The release of dry-snow slab avalanches start with a local failure in a weak snow layer underlying a cohesive slab followed by crack propagation withi...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.11.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, failure criterion, mohr-coulomb, crack propagation, discrete element modeling, snow slab, weak layer.
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