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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: Will A Guest Ever Be Able To Save Your Life?
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Manuel Genswein
- Description: The efficiency of companion rescue with minimal training has been proven in real
accidents as well as in large scale field tests where participants w...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0666-0670.pdf
- Keywords: companion rescue, avalanche rescue, search systems, avalanche rescue technology, rescue training
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- Title: Avalanche Scenario with Double Burial the Effectiveness of Different Rescue Equipment, Specific Operational Methods and Their Benefits for Companion Rescue
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Hauer Othmar, Eck Markus, Schober Michael
- Description: For this study a field test was carried out to determine the total time needed by
independently working test persons to locate two active transmitter...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0675-0680.pdf
- Keywords: triple antenna beacons with marking function, beacons without marking function, three circle method, electronic probe, micro strip searching
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- Title: Updating and Expansion of a Field Study to Optimize the Search Strip Width of Avalanche Beacons
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Marcellus Schreilechner, Markus Eck, Michael Schober
- Description: The range of an avalanche beacon depends on certain technical characteristics of the device and the position of the transmitter (or victim) relative t...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0681-0685.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche beacon, useful range, dgps, search strip width
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- Title: 1985 – 2009 Twenty-Five Years of Avalanche Accidents in Italy
- Date: 2009
- Authors: M. Valt, I. Chiambretti, R. Zasso
- Description: Italy’s avalanche accidents data bank was carried out by AINEVA and stores more
than 800 events between 1985 and 2009 period. Data bank files ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0686-0690.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche accidents, danger degree, mountain professional, rescue
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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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- Title: Slab Fracture at 1900 Frames Per Second-Experimental Methods
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Chris Borstad, David McClung
- Description: We present high speed video images of slab fracture experiments. Slab bending tests were conducted in a cold laboratory at Rogers Pass in Glacier Nati...
- Object ID: P__8197.pdf
- Keywords: fracture mechanics, high speed photography
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- Title: Avalanche Fracture Mechanics Results for Practitioners
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: D.M. McClung
- Description: It is indisputable that dry slab avalanches are initiated by weak layer shear fractures. I formulated the first fracture mechanical model of dry slab ...
- Object ID: P__8180.pdf
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- Title: Extended Column Test Results During Surface Warming: Does Surface Warming Affect Fracture Propagation Potential?
- Date: 2008-09-22
- Authors: Ron Simenhois, Karl Birkeland
- Description: Dry slab avalanche stability typically increases over time in the absence of active loading from new snow or wind. However, field observations suggest...
- Object ID: P__8037.pdf
- Keywords: extended column test, pst, propagation saw test, fracture propagation
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- Title: Observing and Forecasting Snow Surface Temperatures for Nordic Ski Race Courses at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Wendy Wagner, John D. Horel
- Description: Fast skis play an essential role in a nordic athlete's Olympic performance. Using the right combination of ski wax depends on accurate forecasts of th...
- Object ID: P__8071.pdf
- Keywords: snow surface temperature, snow, thermal mapping, 2010 olympics
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- Title: Recent Observations of Snow Metamorphism and Microstructure
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: E. Greene, M. Schneebeli, K. Elder
- Description: Snowpack stability and avalanche formation depend on the microstructure within a snow layer. These layers form as snow is added to the pack or as meta...
- Object ID: P__8109.pdf
- Keywords: snow, snow metamorphism, snow microstructure, snow properties
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- Title: Quantifying Changes in Weak Layer Microstructure Associated with Loading Events
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Eric Lutz, Karl Birkeland, Hans-Peter Marshall, Kathy Hansen
- Description: Researchers and practitioners have long utilized a variety of penetrometers to investigate the snowpack. Identifying definitive relationships between ...
- Object ID: P__8179.pdf
- Keywords: microstructure, stability, loading event, snow micropen
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- Title: Laboratory Simulations of Radiation-Recrystallization Events in Southwest Montana
- Date: 2008-09-23
- Authors: Andrew E. Slaughter, Patrick J. Staron, Edward E. Adams, Doug McCabe, Henry Munter, Doug Catherine, Irene Henninger, Mike Cooperstein, Tom Leonard
- Description: During the winter seasons of 2006/2007 and 2007/2008, Montana State University researchers collaborated with the Yellowstone Club Ski Patrol to invest...
- Object ID: P__8057.pdf
- Keywords: near-surface facets, radiation recrystallization, heat-transfer model, snow micropen
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