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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: Spatial Variations in Snowslope Stability: Insights from Observations During Active Control on the Milford Road, New Zealand
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Zach M. Guy, Karl W. Birkeland
- Description: Slab avalanches initiate from relatively small (1-10m length) zones of basal
weakness. Knowledge of the location of these “deficit zonesâ€...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-017.pdf
- Keywords: milford road, spatial variations, snowslope stability
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- Title: How Snow Fails
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Jürg Schweizer
- Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak layer below a cohesive slab. Avalanche release models start with an initial crack which may pr...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-039.pdf
- Keywords: dry-snow slab, cohesive slab, surface hoar
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- Title: New Insights Into Skier-Triggering of Slab Avalanches
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Joachim Heierli, Karl W. Birkeland, Ron Simenhois, Peter Gumbsch
- Description: Most skiers trigger the slab avalanche in which they are caught. Preventing those accidents necessitates a better understanding of the factors contrib...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-040.pdf
- Keywords: skier-triggering, slab avalanches, anticrack model, risk
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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: 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: 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: A Paint Scraper Hardness Blade
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
- Description: We present a new hand-held hardness gauge that measures penetration resistance over a length scale of about 100 grains. The apparatus consists of a 10...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-001.pdf
- Keywords: paint scraper, blade, penetration resistance, densification
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- Title: On Surface Warming and Snow Instability
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Bruce Jamieson
- Description: Warming is believed to be one of the most prominent causes of snow instability – although experimental evidence is rare. We know that – ...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-058.pdf
- Keywords: surface warming, slab avalanches, dry-snow, near-surface layers
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- Title: A Recipe for Widespread Persistent Deep Slab Avalanche Characteristics in Western Canada
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Cam Campbell, Matt MacDonald
- Description: Of the 29 avalanche fatalities during the avalanche season of 2002-03 in western Canada, at least 14 were attributed to persistent deep slab avalanche...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-059.pdf
- Keywords: slab avalanche, fatalities, snowpack, weather conditions
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- Title: 2010 Saddle Peak Avalanche: Sidecountry Challenges, Misconceptions, and Lessons
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Doug Chabot, Mark Staples, Karl Birkeland, Eric Knoff
- Description: On February 16th, 2010 a person accidentally kicked off a cornice that triggered a large slide on Saddle Peak immediately outside Bridger Bowl’...
- Object ID: ISSW_O-063.pdf
- Keywords: cornice, facets, hard slab, slide, safety
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- Title: Characterizing Wet Slab and Glide Slab Avalanche Occurrence Along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Erich H. Peitzsch, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel B. Fagre, Blase Reardon
- Description: Wet slab and glide slab snow avalanches are dangerous and yet can be particularly difficult to predict. Both wet slab and glide slab avalanches are th...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-066.pdf
- Keywords: wet slab, going to-the-sun road, snotel site, free water, snowpack
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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: 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: An Extreme Slush and Slab Avalanche Event in High Arctic Maritime Svalbard
- Date: 2010
- Authors: Markus Eckerstorfer, Hanne H. Christiansen
- Description: Ten slush avalanches and 31 slab avalanches were observed and documented in a 16.8 km² large mountainous area, around Svalbard’s main settle...
- Object ID: ISSW_P-093.pdf
- Keywords: slushflow, snowpack, solid precipitation
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