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2 datasets found

  • Rockfall gallery testing Parde 2016

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Five full-scale field tests were conducted with concrete blocks weighting between 800 and 3200 kg being dropped onto the roof of a gallery structure made from reinforced concrete....

    Last updated: November 3, 2019

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    • rockfall-experiments
    • field-data
    • field-test
    • impact-testing
    • experiments
    • field-tests
    • natural-hazard
    • mass-movements
    • rockfall
    • experiment
  • Repetitive trajectory testing in Tschamut 2014

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In summer 2014, 6 rock blocks between 20 and 80kg have been thrown in total 111 times down a slope at the Swiss Oberalppass close to the village Tschamut. The slope was mainly...

    Last updated: February 16, 2022

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    • ZIP
    • field-test
    • rockfall
    • field-data
    • trajectory
    • experiments
    • natural-hazards
    • mass-movements
    • experiment
    • field-tests