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Title: Using High-Speed Video to Better Understand Extended Column Tests
Date: 2012
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Extended Column Tests (ECTs) have become increasingly popular for assessing snowpack stability. However, we still do not fully understand what happen...
Object ID: issw-2012-098-103.pdf
Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snowpack stability test,
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Title: The Propagation Saw Test (PST): A Review of its Development, Applications, and Recent Research
Date: 2012
Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The Propagation Saw Test (PST) method was developed independently in Switzerland and in Canada in 2005 and 2006. It was inspired partly by observation...
Object ID: issw-2012-1047-1053.pdf
Keywords: fracture propagation, snow stability tests, avalanche safety
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Title: Changes in Stability Test Usage by Snowpilot Users
Date: 2012
Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Doug Chabot
Description: Professionals and recreationists utilize stability tests to assess snow stability. Our goal is to determine whether or not people are changing the typ...
Object ID: issw-2012-1065-1068.pdf
Keywords: snow pit, snow stability, avalanche fractures
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Title: Numerical Modeling of Fracture Propagation in Slabs
Date: 2010
Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
Description: We present the results of numerical simulations of tensile failure of snow samples. Several material models for quasibrittle tensile failure were impl...
Object ID: ISSW_O-042.pdf
Keywords: fracture propagation, slab avalanche, elastic modulus, fracture energy
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Title: Some Insights Into Fracture Propagation in Weak Snowpack Layers
Date: 2010
Authors: Joachim Heierli, Alec van Herwijnen, Peter Gumbsch, Michael Zaiser
Description: Dry snow slab avalanches form when fracture, once initiated in a weak snowpack layer, propagates over large distances, progressively debonding a vast ...
Object ID: ISSW_P-078.pdf
Keywords: dry snow, weak snowpack layers, fracture
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Title: Deformation Analysis of the Propagation Saw Test
Date: 2010
Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
Description: We present results of high speed photography films which show that the scale of slope normal deformation prior to unstable fracture in the propagatio...
Object ID: ISSW_O-009.pdf
Keywords: propagation saw test, kootenay pass, british columbia
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Title: The Effect of Additional Snow Load on Extended Column Test and Propagation Saw Test Results
Date: 2010
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
Description: The number of skier triggered dry slab avalanches typically increases during or shortly after snow loading events. However, field observations and res...
Object ID: ISSW_O-041.pdf
Keywords: extended column test, propagation saw test, snow, dry slab
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Title: On the Sustainability and Arrest of Weak Layer Fracture in Whumpfs and Avalanches
Date: 2010
Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Recent theoretical and practical descriptions of weak layer fracture have focused on the mechanics of achieving a state of propagation, which is assum...
Object ID: ISSW_O-043.pdf
Keywords: whumpfs, avalanches, en-echelon slab fractures,
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Title: A Field Method for Measuring Slab Stiffness and Weak Layer Fracture Energy
Date: 2010
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Joachim Heierli
Description: Traditional field measurements, such as snow profiles and stability tests, are widely used to provide information on snow cover stability for avalanch...
Object ID: ISSW_O-044.pdf
Keywords: fracture energy, slab, avalanche forecasting,
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Title: Fracture Energy of Weak Snowpack Layers
Date: 2010
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen, Benjamin Reuter
Description: Recent experimental and theoretical work has provided new insight into weak layer fracture in view of dry-snow slab avalanche release. The two main pa...
Object ID: ISSW_P-079.pdf
Keywords: snowpack layers, fracture, dry snow
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Title: Validating the Propagation Saw Test on the Slope Scale
Date: 2009
Authors: Cameron Ross, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Over the past few seasons, the Propagation Saw Test (PST) has gained increasing acceptance in some guiding and highway operations in western North Am...
Object ID: issw-2009-0282-0286.pdf
Keywords: fracture propagation, snowpack stability, propagation saw test, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Fracture Line Profiles in Japan
Date: 2009
Authors: Shinji Ikeda
Description: Numerous studies have been conducted on snow pack characteristics associated with avalanches formation, mainly in North America and Europe. In recent...
Object ID: issw-2009-0334-0335.pdf
Keywords: snowpack stratigraphy, weak layer, structural weakness, snow climate, avalanche forecasting
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Title: Field Study on Fracture Propagation in Weak Snowpack Layers
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Alec van Herwijnen, Joachim Heierli, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Instabilities in snow slopes generally involve the progressive fracture along a weak snowpack layer. Recent field observations on fractures in weak la...
Object ID: P__8213.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, avalanche release, fracture mechanics, fracture propagation
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Title: Anticracks: A New Theory of Fracture Initiation and Fracture Propagation in Snow
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: J. Heierli, A. van Herwijnen, P. Gumbsch, M. Zaiser
Description: Shear failure models have traditionally dominated the research on slab avalanche initiation in snow science, but evidence has accumulated that they te...
Object ID: P__8212.pdf
Keywords: fracture, anticrack, packing order
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Title: Validation of the Propagation Saw Test Near Whumpfs and Avalanches
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Dave Gauthier, Cameron Ross, Bruce Jamieson
Description: The Propagation Saw Test (PST) is a recently developed field test method for evaluating the fracture propagation propensity of slab and weak layer com...
Object ID: P__8216.pdf
Keywords: propagation propensity, field test, instability assessment, snowpack properties, forecasting
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