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Title: Discrete Element Modelling to Compute Drag Coefficients of Obstacles Impacted by Granular Flows
Date: 2009
Authors: Lionel Favier, Dominique Daudon, Frederic Donze, Jacky Mazars
Description: Passive protection structures against natural granular flows (snow avalanches, debris flow) are designed with a rough approximation of their drag coef...
Object ID: issw-2009-0500-0504.pdf
Keywords: granular flow, discrete element, obstacle, drag coefficient
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Title: Definition of Hazard Zones for Dense Snow Avalanches
Date: 2009
Authors: Paolo Scotton, Francesca Moro, Stefano De Toni, Daniele Dalla Valle, Irene Vigni
Description: The paper describes a procedure for the determination of snow avalanches Hazard Map developed after the observation, over some years, of the behaviour...
Object ID: issw-2009-0488-0491.pdf
Keywords: dense snow avalanche, granular rheology, hazard zoning
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Title: Snow Avalanche Dynamics as a Granular Fluid Phenomenon
Date: 1990
Authors: Jimmie D. Dent
Description: Theory and experiment are combined to produce a picture of how stresses in idealized granular materials depend upon the flow kinematics and material p...
Object ID: issw-1990-227-233.pdf
Keywords: flow kinematics, shearing flow, constitutive law, nonuniform particles
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