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Title: POST CONTROL, POST EARTHQUAKE AND TEMPERATURE RELEASE OF DRY SNOW SLAB AVALANCHES
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: David M. McClung, Bill Glude
Description: Field observations show there are three related situations in which dry snow slab avalanches re-lease with delays after strain perturbations or temper...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.53.pdf
Keywords: viscoelastic, alpine snow, quasi-brittle fracture; snow avalanche; fracture delay
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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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Title: MODE-III FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF ANTICRACKS IN WEAK LAYERS: MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Florian Rheinschmidt, Valentin Adam, Melin Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Bastian Bergfeld, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: We propose an experimental setup and a closed-form model to identify the mode III fracture toughness of weak layers. The field experiment draws inspir...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.60.pdf
Keywords: fracture mechanics, propagation saw test, cross-slope anticrack propagation
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Title: MODELING TOUCHDOWN AND CRACK ARREST IN PROPAGATION SAW TESTS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Johannes Schneider, Florian Rheinschmidt, Bastian Bergfeld, Grégoire Bobillier, Alec van Herwijnen, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp L. Rosendahl
Description: We show that slab touchdown causes a decrease in energy release rate, which can lead to crack arrest in propagation saw tests. To this end, we develop...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.61.pdf
Keywords: snowpack stability, propagation saw test, crack arrest, fracture mechanics, predictive modeling
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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: Snowpack stabilization following storms: Field experiments and modelling of temporal changes in snow mechanical properties following loading
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen, Benjamin Reuter, Bastian Bergfeld
Description: Most dry slab avalanches occur during or immediately following loading by snowfall or winddeposition. In the absence of further loading avalanche acti...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O10.2.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, fracture, loading, slab, particle tracking velocimetry, propagation saw test
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Title: Anti-crack nucleation in snowpacks without assuming initial defects: modeling dry snow slab avalanches
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Philipp L. Rosendahl, Vera Lübke, Philipp Weißgraeber
Description: To improve modeling of slab avalanche release we propose a new mechanical snowpack model and a novel criterion for anticrack nucleation. The model all...
Object ID: ISSW2018_O10.6.pdf
Keywords: slab avalanche release, fracture mechanics, predictive modeling, snowpack model
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Title: Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Bastian Bergfeld, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Dual, Jürg Schweizer
Description: To assess the avalanche triggering potential, information on failure initiation and crack propagation is required. While in the past failure initiatio...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.12.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, fracture, crack speed, slab, weak layer, high-speed photography
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Title: The Effect of Increasing Load on Weak Layer Fracture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Avalanches failing on buried weak layers tend to be easier to trigger during or immediately following snowfall, suggesting that loading favorably chan...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.03.pdf
Keywords: fracture, loading, slab, particle tracking velocimetry, propagation saw test
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Title: The Role of Collapse in Avalanche Release: Review and Implications for Practitioners and Future Research
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Edward Bair, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reports of collapses and whumpfing sounds and their links to instability in the snowpack have been around for decades, but like many areas of snow sci...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.04.pdf
Keywords: fracture, collapse, anticrack, extended column test, propagation saw test
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Title: Wet-Snow Fracture Propagation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Markus Zöchling, Martin Forster, Thomas Wiesinger, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Fracture propagation within wet snow is a key issue in order to understand and predict wet-snow slab avalanches. In our preliminary field study we inv...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, fracture propagation, wet-snow avalanches, propagation saw test
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Title: Micromechanical Analysis of Energy Release in Snow Fracture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Anthony M. LeBaron, Daniel A. Miller
Description: Fracture initiation and propagation in snow is paramount to understanding the avalanche process. There is ongoing discussion and debate regarding the ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: fracture, energy release rate
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Title: A New Mechanical Framework to Interpret Weak Layer and Slab Fracture in the Propagation Saw Test
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Lorenzo Benedetti, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Johan Gaume
Description: This work aims to provide a mechanical model for the Propagation Saw Test (PST) based on the Euler-Bernoulli beam, allowing a description of the slab ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.01.pdf
Keywords: fracture, critical length, propagation length, mechanical model
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Title: Extended Column Test: Repeatability and Comparison to Slope Stability and the Rutschblock
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Kurt Winkler
Description: Information on snow stability is key information when assessing the avalanche situation. However, stability tests like the Extended Column Test (ECT) ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.08.pdf
Keywords: extended column test, rutschblock, test repeatability, snow stability, fracture propagation
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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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