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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: The Effect of Changing Slope Angle on Extended Column Test Results: Can We Dig Pits in Safer Locations?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Joachim Heierli
- Description: Avalanche practitioners often assume that weak snowpack layers fracture more easily in steeper terrain. We are typically reluctant to conduct stabilit...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-010.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, ect, alaska, montana
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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: 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 Slab Test – The Missing Link in Stability Testing?
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Kjetil Brattlien, Jo Gunnar Ellevold
- Description: An avalanche is released when both the weak layer and the slab fails, still standard stability tests (e.g. CT, ECT) focus on the weak layer only. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-011.pdf
- Keywords: slope stability, stability tests, slab test
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- Title: French Avalanche Research : Experimental Test Sites
- Date: 2010
- Authors: X. Ravanat, F. Ousset
- Description: A variety of small-scale and full scale measurement instruments have been developed by Cemagref (ETNA research unit, Grenoble France) to study avalanc...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-012.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, experimental test site, full-scale, small-scale
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- Title: Free-Ride: Local Evaluation of Avalanche Danger in Valgrisenche - Aosta Valley (I)
- Date: 2010
- Authors: P. Dellavedova, D. Garin, V. Segor
- Description: During the months of February and March 2010, in the north-west part of Western Alps in Aosta Valley where the practice of free-ride heliski is regula...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-022.pdf
- Keywords: free-ride, stability test
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- Title: Evaluation of the Failure Mode Transition in High Strength TMCP Steel Weld By Charpy Impact Test
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chin-Hyung Lee, Hyun-Seop Shin, Su-Tae Kang, Bong-Chul Joo, Ki-Tae Park
- Description: There are strong demands for lightweight structures in cold regions, where construction cost penalties increase tremendously with remoteness of the lo...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-083.pdf
- Keywords: high strength steel, tmcp
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- Title: The Upgraded Full-Scale Avalanche Test-Site Ryggfonn, Norway
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Peter Gauer, Hedda Breien, Dieter Issler, Krister Kristensen, Kalle Kronholm, Erik Lied, Karstein Lied
- Description: Measurements of full-scale avalanches are expensive and time consuming, but are indispensable to gain in-depth understanding of the flow behavior of a...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-084.pdf
- Keywords: test site, catching dam, runout zone, slf full-scale tests
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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: Where to Dig? – On Optimizing Sampling Strategy
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Sascha Bellaire
- Description: Snow slope stability evaluation is often based on a single test location within a slope. However, we know that snow cover properties and stability may...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0298-0300.pdf
- Keywords: snow avalanche release, snow stability evaluation, snow stability test
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- Title: French Avalanche Research: Experimental Test Sites
- Date: 2009
- Authors: X. Ravanat, F. Ousset
- Description: A variety of small-scale and full scale measurement instruments have been developed by Cemagref (ETNA research unit, Grenoble France) to study avalanc...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0423-0427.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, experimental test site, full-scale, small-scale
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- Title: Automatised Range-Gated Doppler Radar Measurements of a Spontaneously Released Avalanche at the Vallée de la Sionne Test Site
- Date: 2009
- Authors: L. Rammer, H. Schreiber, M. Hiller, F. Dufour, B. Sovilla, P. Gauer, M.A. Kern
- Description: Range-gated Doppler radar measurements provide decisive information about the motion of an avalanche along the avalanche track. However, up to now, su...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0472-0476.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche dynamics, radar measurements, spontaneous avalanche
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- Title: Iron Man, The Steel Crash Test Dummy, Measures Forces in an Avalanche
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Michael J. Jenkins, Timothy M. Samaras
- Description: Unavailable
- Object ID: issw-2009-0664-0665.pdf
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- Title: The Extended Column Test: A Field Test for Fracture Initiation and Propagation
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: For dry slab avalanches, fractures initiate and propagate in a weak layer or along an
interface. Current field tests like compression or stuffblock t...
- Object ID: issw-2006-079-085.pdf
- Keywords: stability test, avalanche forecasting, stability assessment, fracture propagation
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