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Slope stability analysis

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Competition between kinematic and dynamic waves in floods on steep slopes

We present a theoretical stability analysis of the flow after the sudden release of a fixed mass of fluid on an inclined plane formally restricted to relatively long time scales, for which the kinematic regime is valid. Shallow-water equations for steep sl ...

Cambridge University Press2010

Capacitive flexible force sensor

Martinus Gijs, Jagoda Anna Dobrzynska

We have realized a flexible force sensor, composed of four redundant capacitors, the operation of which is based on the measurement of a load-induced capacitance change. We use polyimide both as flexible substrate and as elastic dielectric between two leve ...

Elsevier2010

Escola a Manresa / School in Manresa

Sergi Aguacil Moreno

The project is developed around a central courtyard in response to the site where it is located, while taking advantage of the existing slope to resolve the position of the singular buildings in relation to the system of grouping classrooms; the direct con ...

2010

The Effect of Plasma Profile Variation on the Stability of the n = 1 Internal Kink Mode in Rotating Tokamak Plasmas

Jonathan Graves

The sensitivity of the stability of the ideal n = 1 internal kink mode to variations in the plasma profiles is analysed both analytically and numerically in rotating tokamak plasmas. These stability analyses have been carried out including the centrifugal ...

2010

The effect of plasma profile variation on the stability of the n=1 internal kink mode in rotating tokamak plasmas

Jonathan Graves

2010

The radial wave operator in similarity coordinates

Roland Donninger

We present a rigorous functional analytic setting to study the radial wave equation in similarity coordinates. As an application we analyze linear stability of the fundamental self-similar solution of the wave equation with a focusing power nonlinearity. T ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Numerical simulation of gravel unconstrained flow experiments: A comparison between DAN-3D and RASH-3D codes

Vincent Labiouse, Claire Sauthier

Four gravel unconstrained flow experiments were modelled with the DAN-3D and RASH-3D codes. Both the codes, based on continuum mechanics, were developed for the propagation of rapid landslides, like rock avalanches. The codes were at first run to back-calc ...

CRC Press/Balkema2010

Field study of the dynamics and modelling of subgrid-scale turbulence in a stable atmospheric surface layer over a glacier

Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Marc Parlange, Charles Vivant Ignacio Meneveau, Chad Higgins

A field experiment – the Snow Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (SnoHATS) – has been performed over an extensive glacier in Switzerland in order to study small-scale turbulence in the stable atmospheric surface layer, and to investigate the role, dynamics ...

2010

Half-scale experimental study of rockfall impacts on sandy slopes

Vincent Labiouse, Barbara Heidenreich

In the framework of rockfall trajectory modelling, the bouncing phenomenon occurring when a rock block impacts with the slope surface is the most difficult to predict, owing to its complexity and its very limited understanding. To date, the rebound is comm ...

2009

Using geotypes for landslide hazard assessment and mapping: a coupled field and GIS-based method

Aurèle Parriaux, Séverine Bilgot

Switzerland is exceptionally subjected to landslides; indeed, about 10% of its area is considered as unstable. Making this observation, its Department of the Environment (BAFU) introduces in 1997 a method to realize landslide hazard maps. It is routinely u ...

Copernicus GmbH2009

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