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Title: Design and Testing of Blast Shield for Avalanche Control used by the Colorado Department of Transportation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Vilem Petr, Eduardo Lozano
Description: An accidental explosion took place in March 2014 while performing an avalanche control operation in Loveland, Colorado. After the unfortunate events, ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P2.51.pdf
Keywords: barrier, blast wave, fragmentation, high explosives, safety
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Title: Assessing Weak Layer Failure and Changes in Snowpack Properties Due to Avalanche Control By Explosives
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stephan Simioni, Jurg Schweizer
Description: Avalanche control by explosives is among the key temporary preventive measures and today fixed avalanche control installations are widely used. Hither...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-13.pdf
Keywords: snow properties, avalanche control, explosives, weak layer failure
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Title: Evolution of Explosives and Safety Improvement in the Avalanche
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: COSTECALDE Vincent
Description: The avalanche triggering has long done with explosives. The use of these products can effectively produce a shock wave powerful enough to do from an ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-53.pdf
Keywords: explosives, emulsion, non-electric detonators, safety
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Title: Observations on the Development/Destruction of Potential Sliding Layers in a Path Controlled With Large Amounts of Explosives and Artillery
Date: 2012
Authors: Mike Stanford, Brandon Levy
Description: The Old Faithful slide area just west from the summit of Stevens Pass in central Washington State is a time tested area for Avalanches. Thousands of r...
Object ID: issw-2012-904-907.pdf
Keywords: old faithful, highway, forecasts
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Title: Snowpack Effects Induced by Blasts: Experimental Measurements vs Theoretical Formulas
Date: 2012
Authors: B. Frigo, B. Chiaia, M. Cardu
Description: To analyse the response of snowpack to explosives and the induced artificial triggering of avalanches, an experimental campaign has been realized duri...
Object ID: issw-2012-943-947.pdf
Keywords: craters, snowpack, explosives
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Title: The Effects of Explosives on the Physical Properties of Snow
Date: 2012
Authors: Robyn E. Wooldridge, Jordy Hendrikx, Daniel A. Miller, Karl W. Birkeland
Description: Explosives are a critically important component of avalanche control programs. They are used both to initiate avalanches and to test snowpack instabil...
Object ID: issw-2012-1033-1039.pdf
Keywords: explosives, snow pack, avalanche risk,
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Title: I-90 Snoqualmie Pass: Operating a Highway Avalanche Program During a Major Construction Project
Date: 2012
Authors: John Stimberis
Description: Snoqualmie Pass, WA (921m) receives an average of 1100 cm of snowfall annually. Interstate 90 over Snoqualmie Pass is the major highway through the C...
Object ID: issw-2012-547-552.pdf
Keywords: snow sheds, avalanche fences, explosives tramways, avalanche forecasting, avalanche control
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Title: State of the Explosives Industry
Date: 2010
Authors: Everett Clausen
Description: This presentation will be a review of how the perception of the avalanche industry by the explosives industry has changed and how that transformation ...
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Keywords: explosives industry, avalanche control
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Title: Post-Control Avalanches: Definition, History, Causes and the Future
Date: 2010
Authors: Michael Ferrari
Description: At developed ski areas the term post-control avalanches generally has been used to describe avalanches that occur after mitigation measures have been...
Object ID: ISSW_O-047.pdf
Keywords: avalanche control, ski areas, explosives, investigate
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Title: An Experimental Investigation of Explosives and Snowpack Dynamic Response
Date: 2010
Authors: R.G. Tichota, D.A. Miller, R. Larson, D. Richmond
Description: Explosives are frequently used for avalanche control in public transportation corridors and within ski area boundaries, yet there has been little rese...
Object ID: ISSW_P-016.pdf
Keywords: explosives, snowpack, public transportation
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Title: A Basic Study on Technology of Inducing Artificial Avalanche by Explosive Detonation Inside the Snowpack
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Takashi Machida, Lu Minjiao, Isao Kamiishi, Atsushi Sato, Makoto Machida, Norio Hayakawa
Description: Avalanche inducing technology to ensure the safety of the potentially dangerous area practiced in Japan relies on blasting off the snow layer with the...
Object ID: P__8102.pdf
Keywords: explosives, artificial avalanche, wet snow, full depth avalanche
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Title: Tram Improvements on Snoqualmie Pass
Date: 2008-09-22
Authors: Craig Wilbour, Kevin Marston, Lee Redden
Description: Locally constructed explosive trams have proven safe and effective for delivering large elevated charges to inaccessible locations. There are 24 explo...
Object ID: P__8032.pdf
Keywords: tram, carrier, cable, belay
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Title: Explosive Shock Wave Compression in Snow: Effects of Explosive Orientation and Snowpack Compresison
Date: 2006
Authors: Christopher Binger, Jared Nelsen, Kristofor A. Olson
Description: Explosives are crucial in the mitigation of avalanche hazards. A greater knowledge of the compressive effects of snow relative to explosive location ...
Object ID: issw-2006-592-597.pdf
Keywords: explosives, layer compression, blasting cap directionality
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Title: A Study of Blasting -Induced Snow Instabilities and Avalanche Releases
Date: 2006
Authors: Pavel Chernouss, Yuri Fedorenko, Nikolai Barashev, Evgeny Mokrov
Description: It is known that explosions can trigger avalanches but mechanisms of their influence remain unstudied and experimental data on explosion effects on th...
Object ID: issw-2006-598-606.pdf
Keywords: explosions, seismicity, air shock waves, avalanches, simulation
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Title: Enviromental Implications for Explosives Based Risk Mitigation: A Case Study from the BNSF Railway Avalanche Safety Program Essex, Montana, USA
Date: 2006
Authors: David Hamre, Richard W. Steiner
Description: On January 28th, 2004, numerous avalanches released above the BNSF Railway tracks located in John F. Stevens Canyon, Montana. In particular, three ava...
Object ID: issw-2006-747-756.pdf
Keywords: bnsf, railroad, snowsheds, avalanche forecasting, avalanche hazard, explosives, artillery
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