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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: 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: PINPOINTING THE TIMING OF WEAK LAYER FAILURE: A CASE STUDY OF A LARGE, WIDESPREAD NATURAL AVALANCHE CYCLE IN THE BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: James Peabody, Nathalie de Leeuw, Ben VandenBos
- Description: In March 2026, a multi-day storm deposited over 180 mm of snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho. Prior to t...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.61.pdf
- Keywords: timing of weak layer failure, avalanche forecasting, geospatial analysis, deep slab instability, case study
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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: 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: THE EFFECT OF PROPAGATION SAW TEST GEOMETRIES ON CRITICAL CUT LENGTH
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Bastian Bergfeld, Karl Birkeland, Valentin Adam, Philipp L. Rosendahl, Alec van Herwijnen
- Description: Information on failure initiation and crack propagation is essential for assessing avalanche triggering potential. The Propagation Saw Test (PST) is a...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.20.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, propagation saw test, edge effect, failure initiation
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- Title: COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF COMPACTED MACHINE-MADE SNOW
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Yuanpeng Zheng, Chenxi Han, Mengxuan Zeng, Tao Chen, Xianglin Gu, Gang Qiao
- Description: Compacted snow holds a significant role in both structural engineering and terramechanics in cold regions. Machine-made snow makes indoor snow-related...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P3.31.pdf
- Keywords: machine-made snow, compressive behavior, compressive strength, compressive modulus, failure modes
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- Title: How reliable are design avalanche loads? A systematic approach to estimate their uncertainty
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Mark Schaer, Katharina Fischer, Stefan Margreth
- Description: The assessment of avalanche loads depends partly on well-founded facts such as observed avalanches, but the avalanche expert generally also has to mak...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P02.14.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche loads, avalanche dynamic simulations, snow shed, probabilistic approach, failure probability, building codes.
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- Title: Measuring snow mechanical properties typical of storm snow instabilities
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Neige Calonne, Ed Adams
- Description: Dry snow slab avalanches release after failure has occurred in a weak layer below a cohesive snow slab. Typically, weak layers either consist of preci...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O10.3.pdf
- Keywords: snow failure, snow mechanics, mechanical properties, snow instability, storm snow
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- Title: Prediction of snow failure: mission impossible?
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Achille Capelli, Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Slab avalanches are caused by a crack forming and propagating in a weak layer within the snow cover, which eventually causes the detachment of the ove...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.11.pdf
- Keywords: snow failure, avalanche release, precursor, acoustic emission, fiber bundle model
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- Title: Investigation of the interplay between shear failure and normal collapse of weak layers using microstructure-based mechanical simulations
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Tijan Mede, Guillaume Chambon, Pascal Hagenmuller, François Nicot
- Description: Weak layers of snow are thin layers of low density and cohesion that consist of a complex network of sintered ice grains. These layers are very fragil...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.36.pdf
- Keywords: weak snow layer failure, normal collapse in shear, slab avalanche release
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- Title: A New Crack Propagation Criterion for Skier-Triggered Snow Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Johan Gaume, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches begin with a local failure in a weak snowpack layer buried below cohesive slab layers. If the size of the failed zone exceeds...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P1.01.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche, skier-triggering, failure initiation, crack propagation, pst, slab, weak layer
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- Title: Avalanche Release 101
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, Johan Gaume
- Description: Our understanding of dry-snow slab avalanche release improved over the last decade – not the least by consistently following a fracture mechani...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O1.01.pdf
- Keywords: snow failure, failure initiation, crack propagation, avalanche formation, avalanche release, fracture mechanics
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- Title: Field Experiments on Weak Layer Failure and Crack Propagation Due to Explosives
- Date: 2014-09-29
- Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jürg Schweizer, Jürg Dual
- Description: Avalanche control by explosives is among the key temporary preventive measures and fixed avalanche control installations are frequently installed toda...
- Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O8.02.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche control, avalanche formation, weak layer failure, crack propagation
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