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Title: Critical Length for the Onset of Crack Propagation in Snow: Reconciling Shear and Collapse
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen, Guillaume Chambon, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avala...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.02.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, crack propagation, critical length, slope angle, pst, slab, weak layer
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Title: A New Crack Propagation Criterion for Skier-Triggered Snow Slab Avalanches
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Johan Gaume, Benjamin Reuter, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Dry-snow slab avalanches begin with a local failure in a weak snowpack layer buried below cohesive slab layers. If the size of the failed zone exceeds...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.01.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche, skier-triggering, failure initiation, crack propagation, pst, slab, weak layer
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Title: Slab Avalanche Triggering: A Combination of Four Basic Phenomena in Series
Date: 2006
Authors: Alain Duclos, François Louchet
Description: There is still a significant gap between models describing slab avalanche triggering mechanisms and practical field applications in terms of risk pre...
Object ID: issw-2006-101-106.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triggering, crack propagation, avalanche program
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