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- Title: Analysis of the Residual Risk Under a National Forest of Protection Against Avalanches and Measures of Management
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Roudnitska S. ONF-RTM, Cornevin D. ONF
- Description: To optimize maintenance and improvement of the paravalanche device in the national
forest of Villards, the RTM department of Savoie realized a study ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-17.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection forest, reforestation, risk assessment, mitigation strategies
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- Title: Taconnaz Avalanche Path: Pressure and Velocity Measurements on Breaking Mounds
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Bellot H., Naaim-Bouvet F., Naaim M., Caccamo P., Faug T., Ousset F.
- Description: This paper describes the instrumentation related to velocity and pressure measurements recently set up in the avalanche protection system of Taconnaz....
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-37.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, protection, taconnaz, force, metrology
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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: 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: Avalanche Protection Dam of Cialancier in Saint Etienne de Tinée : From 2D Digital Modeling to the Start of the Onsite Work
- Date: 2013-10-07
- Authors: Vincent SEGEL, Mathieu SCHMITT, Edith Michel Villaz, Thierry EME, Stéphane ROUDNITSKA, Mohamed NAAIM
- Description: On 16 December 2008 at 11.15 am, a large scale avalanche started in the upper watershed of the Fougeret couloir and ended its course in the hamlet of ...
- Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-68.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, modeling, work
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- Title: Avalanche Protection on Highway E8 to the City of Tromso, Northern Norway
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Ole-André Helgaas, Oevind Skeie Hellum, Dag T. Andreassen
- Description: The highway network in the northern part of Norway is mostly located in alpine terrain. Every winter snow avalanches affect some of these roads and gi...
- Object ID: issw-2012-674-679.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, highway safety, alpine terrain, avalanche forecasting
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- Title: Snowcatcher: A New Snow Avalanche Protection Measure
- Date: 2012
- Authors: Engelbert Gleirscher, Jan-Thomas Fischer, Elisabeth Rainer, Gernot Stelzer, Lambert Rammer, Martin Kern
- Description: Steel wire rope nets have become common as protection measure against avalanches in Europe by preventing a release in the potential starting zone. A n...
- Object ID: issw-2012-937-942.pdf
- Keywords: snow net, protection measure, granular experiment
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- Title: First Experiences in Applying the Swiss ‘Guideline to Account for Avalanche Hazard of Ropeways in Ski Areas’
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Mark Schaer, Stefan Margreth
- Description: Ropeways in ski areas are often exposed to avalanches. The new ropeway guideline fixes principles and procedures how to account for avalanche and snow...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0413-0417.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche defence, snow pressure, ropeway
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- Title: Investigation on the Effectiveness of the Catch-Fence “Snowcatcher†as Avalanche Protection System
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Lambert Rammer, Gernot Stelzer, Martin Kern
- Description: To date, the only available structures for mitigating avalanches in motion in the track or run-out zones of avalanches have been rigid structures such...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0548-0552.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protective structure, snow net system, force measurements
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- Title: Total Safety in Mountain Passes
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Jürg Rocco
- Description: We describe the procedure we follow to keep the Flüela Pass open in early winter and to re-open the road in the spring.
- Object ID: issw-2009-0553.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche control
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- Title: Finite Element Models and Sensitivity Analysis of the Vulnerability of an Avalanche Protection Gallery
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Dominique Daudon, Julien Baroth, Patrycja Szczurowska, Ma Ying, Pascal Perrotin
- Description: Our research work has focused on the Montaulever avalanche protection gallery.
Horizontal and vertical structural elements are modelled herein using ...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0587-0591.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection gallery, finite element model, probabilistic sensitivity study
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- Title: Avalanche Protection for Construction Site
- Date: 2009
- Authors: Thomas Rentsch, Ruedi Stüssi
- Description: “Linthal 2015†is as more than 1.5 billion project in the eastern Alps of Switzerland to expand an existing hydro power plant. Several con...
- Object ID: issw-2009-0592-0596.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, prevention, artificial release, working site, avalanche blasting
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- Title: Interaction of Flexible Rockfall Barriers With Avalanches and Snow Pressure
- Date: 2006
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Andrea Roth
- Description: Rockfall barriers are optimized to absorb high punctual impact energies. In mountain
areas the barriers are also loaded by avalanches and snow pressu...
- Object ID: issw-2006-691-700.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, rockfall barrier, avalanche dynamics, snow pressure
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- Title: The Blaster Boxes: Installing, Testing and Operating North America's First Stationary Avalanche Blasters
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Craig Sterbenz
- Description: Several years ago, an avalanche technician in Lech, Austria envisioned a remotely
operated, fixed mortar capable oflaunching multiple explosive proje...
- Object ID: issw-2002-055-058.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche protection, avalanche hazard reduction
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