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Title: Study of Layered Snow Under Shear and Tension
Date: 2006
Authors: S.K.Joshi, P.Mahajan, Agraj Upadhyay
Description: Natural avalanche release involves the failure by both tension and shear. Clear illustration of this failure phenomenon individually or as a combinat...
Object ID: issw-2006-165-173.pdf
Keywords: tensile failure, shear failure, layered snow, interface, fine grained snow, melt- freeze snow
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Title: Strength Comparisons Between Avalanche and Non-Avalanche Snowpacks
Date: 1984
Authors: Sue A. Ferguson
Description: To help alleviate difficulties in experimental testing of snow strength, stresses creating actual slab avalanches are evaluated using a simple model o...
Object ID: ISSW-1984-124-128.pdf
Keywords: snow strength, fracture-line, shear failure, weak zone
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