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Title: An Extraordinary Avalanche Winter in Troms, Norway - Special Avalanche Conditions – and the Tromdalen Avalanche Disaster
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ragnar Glomseth, Tor André Skjelbakken, Knut Fredriksen
Description: This winter (12/13) was one of the most challenging ever for the regional avalanche rescue team in Tromsø, Norway, with (per 26 April) a total of 1...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-47.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, rescue, accident
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Title: Reboisement Paravalanche Pour la Protection des Routes Contre les Coulées de Neige en Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois
Description: Depuis quelques années, le Conseil Général de la Savoie utilise des techniques de reboisement pour la protection des routes départemental...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-48.pdf
Keywords: reboisement, trépied, collectif
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Title: Gestion du Risque Avalancheux sur les Routes Départementales de Savoie (France)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Gaëlle Bourgeois, Alain Duclos, Stéphane Caffo
Description: Le Conseil Général de la Savoie est gestionnaire d’un peu plus de 3000km de routes, dont environ 1000km sont situés à plus de 1000m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-49.pdf
Keywords: équipements paravalanche, veille permanente, gestion de crise
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Title: Wooden Sleeves to Prevent from Snow Creeping Phenomena in Brévent
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Fanny Bourjaillat, Philippe Berthet-Rambaud, Jean-Pierre Veillard, Pascal Genin
Description: Snow creeping phenomon has been strong, especially in ski resorts, during the last two winter seasons in the Alps. It’s all the more feared af...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-50.pdf
Keywords: protection against snow creeping, wooden sleeves
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Title: Avalanche Barriers in the Starting Zone Exposed to Rock Fall: Range of Capacity and 1:1 Rock Fall Tests With Flexible Snow Net
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Brändle R., Gröner E., Margreth S.
Description: Since the introduction of flexible snow nets in the 1950’s it became obvious that such barriers provide a better performance on combined loadin...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-51.pdf
Keywords: rockfall, snow nets, prevention structure
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Title: Evolution of Explosives and Safety Improvement in the Avalanche
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: COSTECALDE Vincent
Description: The avalanche triggering has long done with explosives. The use of these products can effectively produce a shock wave powerful enough to do from an ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-53.pdf
Keywords: explosives, emulsion, non-electric detonators, safety
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Title: Cornice Control by Helicopter
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Bruno FARIZY
Description: Cornice control with traditional blasting methods is usually hard and dangerous to implement. TAS has designed and has evaluated an experimental devic...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-54.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, cornice, helicopter
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Title: Avalanche Risk Sensitivity to Physical Vulnerability Relations
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Favier P, Eckert, N., Bertrand D., Naaim M.
Description: Several studies provide methods to build vulnerability curves. Empirical approaches remain largely employed even if they rely on scarce data. Other st...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-55.pdf
Keywords: vulnerability relations, fragility curve, snow avalanche, risk quantification, sensitivity study
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Title: Protection de l´Industrie Minière Dans Les Andes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Pablo Galleguillos Acuña
Description: Minera Los Pelambres (http://www.pelambres.cl/) is a copper (Cu) mining company situated high in the Andean Mountain Range, in a country of South Ame...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-56.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, accidents, weather
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Title: Avalanche Forecasting and Risk Mitigation for Specific Objects at Risk
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Krister Kristensen, Hedda Breien, Suzanne Lacasse
Description: Objects and individuals can be exposed to different levels of avalanche hazard. For object specific avalanche forecasting and risk mitigation programs...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-59.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, local forecasting, danger scales, danger levels, probability of occurrence, risk, objects at risk, risk mitigation
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Title: Protection d’Habitations Contre les Avalanches et les Chutes de Blocs Ouvrages Mixtes
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Julien LORENTZ, Benoît BOUTILLIER
Description: This article deals with a project located in Val Thorens (Savoie, France), the highest ski resort of Europe at 2 300 m a.s.l. The project focuses on t...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-60.pdf
Keywords: mixed, barrier, avalanche, rock
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Title: Artificial Avalanche Release as a Protection Measure for Major Roads: The Case Study of Road S.S. 21 “Colle della Maddalena” (CN, Western Italian Alps)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Marco Vagliasindi, Alex Theodule, Margherita Maggioni, Elena Levera
Description: The application of artificial release plans to roads safety management is a very promising prospect. Compared to structural measures, this method usua...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-61.pdf
Keywords: pidav, avalanche interaction with roads, artificial release
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Title: Filets de Protection Contre les Avalanches: un Retour d’Expérience du Service RTM Pour la Définition de Consignes de Maintenance
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Rémy Martin
Description: The RTM service is a service specialised in work in Mountain. Since the 1970s it implements and maintains snownet. A feedback on difficulties in the m...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-63.pdf
Keywords: protection equipment against avalanches, snownet, feedback, setpoint maintenances
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Title: Improvement and Tracking of Helicopter Avalanche Triggering
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jean Marc Neuville, Julien Aboulin, David Poulet, Bruno Farizy, Vincent Hélary, Roland Didier, Xavier Gallot-Lavallée
Description: This new concept called DaisyTrack is a registration unit complementary to the helicopter triggering system DaisyBell. It enables the person in charge...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-64.pdf
Keywords: preventive avalanche release, gas, traceability, geolocalisation
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Title: Vulnerability of a Reinforced Concrete Wall Loaded by a Snow Avalanche: Experimental Testing and FEM Analysis
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ousset I., Bertrand D., Brun M., Limam A., Naaïm M.
Description: In 1999 and 2006, in the Chamonix valley (France,74), a protective device dedicated to deflect and stop snow avalanches was partially destroyed. Exper...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-65.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche defense structure, reinforced concrete, civil engineering, finite element method, vulnerability
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