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Title: Micromechanical Analysis of Energy Release in Snow Fracture
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Anthony M. LeBaron, Daniel A. Miller
Description: Fracture initiation and propagation in snow is paramount to understanding the avalanche process. There is ongoing discussion and debate regarding the ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.34.pdf
Keywords: fracture, energy release rate
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Title: The Role of Collapse in Avalanche Release: Review and Implications for Practitioners and Future Research
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Edward Bair, Johan Gaume, Alec van Herwijnen
Description: Reports of collapses and whumpfing sounds and their links to instability in the snowpack have been around for decades, but like many areas of snow sci...
Object ID: ISSW16_O1.04.pdf
Keywords: fracture, collapse, anticrack, extended column test, propagation saw test
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Title: Wet-Snow Fracture Propagation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Markus Zöchling, Martin Forster, Thomas Wiesinger, Christoph Mitterer
Description: Fracture propagation within wet snow is a key issue in order to understand and predict wet-snow slab avalanches. In our preliminary field study we inv...
Object ID: ISSW16_P1.33.pdf
Keywords: wet snow, fracture propagation, wet-snow avalanches, propagation saw test
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Title: Extended Column Test: Repeatability and Comparison to Slope Stability and the Rutschblock
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Frank Techel, Matthias Walcher, Kurt Winkler
Description: Information on snow stability is key information when assessing the avalanche situation. However, stability tests like the Extended Column Test (ECT) ...
Object ID: ISSW16_P4.08.pdf
Keywords: extended column test, rutschblock, test repeatability, snow stability, fracture propagation
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Title: On How to Measure Snow Mechanical Properties Relevant to Slab Avalanche Release
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Benjamin Reuter, Martin Proksch, Henning Loewe, Alec van Herwijnen, Jürg Schweizer
Description: The release of a slab avalanche is preceded by a sequence of fractures. The main material properties relevant for the fracture processes are the spec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O2-02.pdf
Keywords: snow microstructure, snow mechanical properties, snow fracture, snow stability evaluation, avalanche release
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Title: Spatial Predictions of Surface Hoar and Crust Formation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Simon Horton, Michael Schirmer, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Understanding the distribution of critical snowpack layers is important when assessing avalanche hazard. Two common critical layers, surface hoar and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O4-01.pdf
Keywords: surface hoar, sun crust, surface energy balance, avalanche forecasting, numeric weather prediction
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Title: Strasser, U. and Marke, T. (2013): ESCIMO.spread - A Spreadsheet-Based Point Snow Surface Energy Balance Model to Calculate Hourly Snow Water Equivalent and Melt Rates for Climate
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Strasser, U., Marke, T.
Description: This paper describes the spreadsheet-based point energy balance model ESCIMO.spread which simulates the energy and mass balance as well as melt rates...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-30.pdf
Keywords: snow modeling, canopy interception, spread sheet, energy balance
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Title: Thermal Temperature in Avalanche Flow
Date: 2012
Authors: Cesar Vera Valero, Thomas Feistl, Walter Steinkogler, Othmar Buser, Perry Bartelt
Description: The thermal temperature of snow greatly influences the flow behaviour of avalanches. It is even common to implicitly characterize avalanche flow with ...
Object ID: issw-2012-032-037.pdf
Keywords: wet-snow avalanche, dry snow avalanche, temperature environment, snowpack temperature
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Title: Slab Avalanche Crown Surface Fractography: Observations and Applications
Date: 2012
Authors: Dave Gauthier
Description: Fractography is the study of the morphological fracture surface features in artificial and natural materials, including bone and rock. Several pattern...
Object ID: issw-2012-115-120.pdf
Keywords: crack propagation, fracture-line, crowns
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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: 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: On the Sustainability and Arrest of Weak Layer Fracture in Whumpfs and Avalanches
Date: 2010
Authors: Dave Gauthier, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Recent theoretical and practical descriptions of weak layer fracture have focused on the mechanics of achieving a state of propagation, which is assum...
Object ID: ISSW_O-043.pdf
Keywords: whumpfs, avalanches, en-echelon slab fractures,
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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: 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 Line Profiles in Japan
Date: 2009
Authors: Shinji Ikeda
Description: Numerous studies have been conducted on snow pack characteristics associated with avalanches formation, mainly in North America and Europe. In recent...
Object ID: issw-2009-0334-0335.pdf
Keywords: snowpack stratigraphy, weak layer, structural weakness, snow climate, avalanche forecasting
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