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Snow avalanches: Hazard maps and passive defence structures - Couverture souple

Moro, Francesca

 
9783659907951: Snow avalanches: Hazard maps and passive defence structures
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659907952 ISBN 13 : 9783659907951
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

In Alpine regions snow avalanches are a severe threat for human settlements, activities, and infrastructures. Such natural phenomena may be of two types: powder avalanches and dense snow avalanches. The countermeasures against powder avalanches consist in preventing the initiation of the motion by means of active structures built in the detachment area, or artificially triggering avalanche events. Passive defence structures along the path and in the run-out zone can instead be very effective in deflecting, retarding, or stopping dense snow avalanches. In this book some aspects of dense snow avalanches have been experimentally investigated using a granular mass. Small-scale laboratory tests have been performed to study the different types of deposit that dense snow avalanches can form and to measure the impact force on retarding structures positioned along the run-out zone. A procedure for the estimation of dense snow avalanches hazard maps has been defined and the effects of the selected parameters have been analysed.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In Alpine regions snow avalanches are a severe threat for human settlements, activities, and infrastructures. Such natural phenomena may be of two types: powder avalanches and dense snow avalanches. The countermeasures against powder avalanches consist in preventing the initiation of the motion by means of active structures built in the detachment area, or artificially triggering avalanche events. Passive defence structures along the path and in the run-out zone can instead be very effective in deflecting, retarding, or stopping dense snow avalanches. In this book some aspects of dense snow avalanches have been experimentally investigated using a granular mass. Small-scale laboratory tests have been performed to study the different types of deposit that dense snow avalanches can form and to measure the impact force on retarding structures positioned along the run-out zone. A procedure for the estimation of dense snow avalanches hazard maps has been defined and the effects of the selected parameters have been analysed.

Biographie de l'auteur

Francesca Moro is an Italian environmental engineer. She graduated with a thesis on the management of landslide risk, carried out between Italy and France. In 2009 she obtained her PhD Degree in Earth Science with the label of "Doctor Europaeus" at the University of Padua. Currently she is a tutor and a technical advisor.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659907952
ISBN 13 
9783659907951
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
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