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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: REPLICATING SLAB AVALANCHE INITIATION: A FIELD TEST FOR CONTROLLED ANTICRACK NUCLEATION
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Valentin Adam, Yannik Werner, Jakob Schöttner, Melin D. E. Walet, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: Failure nucleation in slab avalanches is typically hidden beneath the snowpack, which, among other factors, makes this phenomenon so mysterious and di...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.2.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture initiation, finite fracture mechanics, release potential, stability assessment, field test
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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: A GUIDANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF PROPAGATION SAW TESTS
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Philipp L. Rosendahl, Valentin Adam, Stephan Harvey, Bastian Bergfeld, Florian Rheinschmidt, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp Weißgraeber
- Description: Assessing snowpack stability is crucial for determining the avalanche danger level. In this context, the propagation saw test is a valuable tool, thou...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.4.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, stability test, propagation saw test, propagation probability, real-time application
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- Title: EXPANDING THE KNOWLEDGE OF WEAK-LAYER FRACTURE INTO CROSS-SLOPE DIRECTION
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Florian Rheinschmidt, Valentin Adam, Bastian Bergfeld, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: Fracture toughness, a critical material parameter for assessing resistance to crack growth, has been extensively studied in weak snow layers for mode ...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.5.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, cross-slope-propagation, out-of-plane loading, weak snow layers
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- Title: ASYMMETRICAL THREE-POINT BEND TEST FOR INVESTIGATING MIXED-MODE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS IN WELL-BONDED SNOW
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Valentin Adam, Florian Rheinschmidt, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Dr.-Ing. Bastian Bergfeld, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Weißgraeber, Dr. Alec van Herwijnen, Dr.-Ing. Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: Slab fracture plays a crucial role in the release of dry-snow slab avalanches, affecting the size
of the release area. However, there is a lack of fr...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P3.16.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, mixed-mode loading, slab fracture, bending test, finite element analysis
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- Title: A FIELD TEST FOR THE MIXED-MODE FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF WEAK LAYERS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Valentin Adam, Bastian Bergfeld, Florian Rheinschmidt, Melin D. E. Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Philipp Weißgraeber, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp L. Rosendahl
- Description: The triggering mechanisms of dry snow slab avalanches are subjected to a mixed-mode loading scenario driven by different dynamic loading conditions an...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O16.05.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanches, fracture toughness, anticrack propagation, mixed-mode loading, weak snow layers
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- Title: SUPERSHEAR CRACK PROPAGATION IN SNOW SLAB AVALANCHE RELEASE: NEW INSIGHTS FROM NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Bertil Trottet, Bastian Bergfeld, Ron Simenhois, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer, Johan Gaume
- Description: The release process of dry-snow slab avalanches begins with a localized failure within a porous, weak snow layer that lies beneath a cohesive slab. Su...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O2.01.pdf
- Keywords: supershear crack propagation, numerical modeling, dry-snow slab avalanche release
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- Title: Modelling the propagation saw test with discrete elements
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Grégoire Bobillier, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanche release is a multi-scale fracture process. It starts with the formation of a localized failure in a highly porous weak snow la...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.23.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab avalanche, discrete element method, crack propagation
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- Title: How Snow Fails
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak layer below a cohesive slab. Avalanche release models start with an initial crack which may pr...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-039.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab, cohesive slab, surface hoar
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- Title: Force-Controlled Shear Experiments With Snow Samples
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Robert Ernst, Jürg Schweizer, Jürg Dual
- Description: Natural dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure within a weak snow layer. In order to understand the mechanical behaviour and the failure mechan...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0120-0123.pdf
- Keywords: snow mechanical properties, shear strength, acoustic emission, dry-snow slab avalanche, piv
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- Title: The Use of Time Lapse Photography to Monitor Avalanche Activity and Snow Behaviour
- Date: 1984
- Authors: H.J. McPherson, F. de Scally, J.S. Gardner
- Description: The development and use of a time lapse camera system to continuously monitor avalanche activity on two paths in Kananaskis Country Alberta is describ...
- Object ID: ISSW-1984-167-171.pdf
- Keywords: time lapse camera, wet snow, dry snow, slab avalanche
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