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2 datasets found

  • Compressive stick slip and snow-micro-quakes

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    When snow is compressed with a certain speed, micro-snowquakes are triggered in the porous structure of bonded crystals. The present dataset covers uniaxial compression experiments...

    Last updated: February 5, 2020

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    • TXT
    • microstructure
    • x-ray-tomography
    • snow-mechanics
    • compression-experiments
    • snow
  • Dataset for "Dynamic crack propagation in weak snowpack layers: Insights from high-resolution, high-speed photography"

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This data set includes material and results described in the related research article:

    Bergfeld, B., van Herwijnen, A., Reuter, B., Bobillier, G., Dual, J., and Schweizer, J.:...

    Last updated: June 28, 2021

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    • PDF
    • snow-mechanics
    • crack-propagation
    • snow-avalanche
    • snow
    • experiment