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Title: FROM FAILURE TO FRACTURE: FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF STRENGTH AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF BURIED SURFACE HOAR UNDER MIXED-MODE LOADING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Melin Walet, Jakob Schöttner, Valentin Adam, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Dry-snow slab avalanche release involves failure initiation in a weak layer followed by crack propagation. Weak layer strength describes resistance to...
Object ID: ISSW2026_O1.6.pdf
Keywords: weak layers, mixed-mode fracture toughness, multiaxial strength, field experiments, snow mechanics
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Title: TOWARDS A MICROSTRUCTURE-INFORMED REPRESENTATION OF STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF WEAK SNOW LAYERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Francesca Carletti, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Florian Rheinschmidt, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Compilations of the mechanical properties of snow often exhibit scatter spanning orders of magnitude. The resulting uncertainty poses a significant ch...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P1.41.pdf
Keywords: snow slab avalanches, snow mechanics, weak layers, microstructure, strength, stiffness
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Title: DEVELOPING A NOVEL FIELD-BASED COMPACTIVE VISCOMETER
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Benjamin H. Silberman, Eric R. Pardyjak, Ashley Spear, Dhiraj K. Singh
Description: Accurate prediction of storm-snow instability requires understanding how snow density (ρₛ) evolves during active snowfall, yet key mechanical prope...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P2.27.pdf
Keywords: compactive viscosity, storm snow, densification, deid, snow mechanics
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Title: DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION (DIC) IN SNOW MECHANICS: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Valentin Adam, Michael J. Kohler, Bastian Bergfeld, Marcus Muhonen, Daan Leeflang, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Rosendahl, Philipp Weißgraeber, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: In snow mechanics experiments, complex loading configurations and layered snow can produce highly non-uniform deformation, including strain localizati...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P3.35.pdf
Keywords: digital image correlation, dic, snow mechanics, snow slab avalanches, avalanche dynamics
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Title: HOW SNOW DEFORMS UNDER LOADING: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH USING CYCLIC BENDING
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Daan Leeflang, Jakob Schöttner, Louis Berger, Marcel Piecuch, Florian Rheinschmidt, Philipp Weißgraeber, Philipp Rosendahl, Valentin Adam
Description: Snow exhibits a time-dependent mechanical response that depends on density, temperature, microstructure, and loading rate. However, rapid experimental...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.24.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics, constitutive behavior, three-point bending, viscoelasticity, mechanical testing
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Title: LINKING SNOWPITS TO SNOW MECHANICS WITH AN EXTENSIBLE ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Mary Kate Connelly, Philipp L. Rosendahl, Valentin Adam, Samuel V. Verplanck
Description: Mechanical models of avalanche release require mechanical properties of snow, such as Young's modulus, E, and Poisson's ratio, ν, that are seldom mea...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.34.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics; snowpits; avalanche release; snowpilot; parameterization; uncertainty
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Title: INSIGHTS INTO THE INFLUENCE OF SNOW MICROSTRUCTURE ON THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF WEAK LAYERS
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Jakob Schöttner, Melin Walet, Philipp Rosendahl, Philipp Weißgraeber, Valentin Adam, Florian Rheinschmidt, Benjamin Walter, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Natural weak layers exhibit a variety of different microstructures and densities, and thus show different mechanical behavior. Up to now, mechanical p...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.2.pdf
Keywords: snow slab avalanches, snow mechanics, weak snow layers, strength, microstructure
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Title: STRESS WAVES THROUGH SNOW IN 2D
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Samuel Verplanck, Edward Adams
Description: Dynamic loads on the snow surface send stress waves through the snow that are capable of triggering slab avalanches. Previously, the authors determin...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.3.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics, dynamic stress, viscoelasticity
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Title: RAPID MRI PROFILING OF LIQUID WATER CONTENT IN SNOW: MELT AND STABILITY DURING FIRST WETTING AND RAIN ON SNOW EVENTS.
Date: 2024-09-23
Authors: Quirine Krol, Evan Scherrer, Matthew Skuntz, Sarah Codd, Alex Hansen, Joseph Seymour
Description: The first wetting events in a snowpack due to melt or rain on snow events are often associated with unstable snowpacks. The observed mechanical failu...
Object ID: ISSW2024_O3.11.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, mechanics, snow micro hydrology
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Title: INFLUENCES OF OVERLYING SLAB THICKNESS ON THE SNOW MECHANICS OF BRIDGING PROPENSITY
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Matthew Cecil, John Gleason, Ron Simenhois
Description: Almost all snow avalanche fatalities are human induced. Regardless of the mode of travel, moving over snow cover results in a localized dynamic load (...
Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.51.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics, bridging propensity, particle tracking velocimetry, fracture initiation
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Title: STRESS WAVES THROUGH SNOW COLUMNS
Date: 2023-10-08
Authors: Samuel V. Verplanck, Edward E. Adams
Description: Impact forces are a common trigger for slab avalanches. The objective of our work is to model stress, generated by an impact, as a dynamic wave throug...
Object ID: ISSW2023_O16.04.pdf
Keywords: snow mechanics, dynamic stress, viscoelasticity
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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: The effects of soluble impurities on the mechanical behaviour of polycrystalline ice
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Kevin Hammonds, Ian Baker
Description: The Earth’s ice sheets, glaciers, and snowpacks contain a wide variety of naturally occurring impurities, both soluble and insoluble, including...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P10.2.pdf
Keywords: ice mechanics, snow mechanics, soluble impurities, raman spectroscopy, micro-ct
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Title: Testing a New Shear Loading Apparatus for In-Situ Studies of Weak Snow Layers
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Evgeny A. Podolskiy, Monica Barbero, Fabrizio Barpi, Mauro Borri-Brunetto, Oronzo Pallara, Barbara Frigo, Bernardino Chiaia, Guillaume Chambon, Mohamed Naaim
Description: Here we show preliminary results of shear tests carried out with a new shear test apparatus designed and constructed by Politecnico di Torino, DISEG (...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P2-27.pdf
Keywords: snow, mechanics, instrument, weak layer, avalanche
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Title: Size Effects in Slab Avalanche Fractures
Date: 2006
Authors: D.M. McClung, C. Borstad
Description: Size effects in snow failure are an important aspect of avalanche release. A size effect implies that larger samples have smaller strength than small...
Object ID: issw-2006-182.pdf
Keywords: size effect, avalanche fractures, tensile, shear, snow mechanics
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