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• Title:Rockfall engineering / edited by Stéphane Lambert, François Nicot.
  
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• Variant Title:Rock fall engineering
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Lambert, Stebphane, 1969-
  Nicot, François.
  
• Published/Created:London : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TA749 .R63 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Rockslides--Prevention.
  Soil stabilization.
  Rock slopes.
  
• Description:xxiv, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:Rockfall Engineering is an up-to-date, international picture of the state of the art in rockfall engineering. The three basic stages of rockfalls are considered: the triggering stage, the motion stage, and the interaction with a structure stage; along with contributions including structural characterization of cliffs, remote monitoring, stability analysis, boulder propagation, design of protection structures an risk assessment. Academic contributions are illustrated by practical examples, and completed by engineering contributions where practical purposes are thoroughly considered. This title is intended for engineers, students as well as researchers.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781848212565 (hbk.)
  1848212569
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Geophysical Detection and Characterization of Discontinuities in Rock Slopes / Ombeline Meric
  1.1. Introduction
  1.2. Geophysical parameters and methods
  1.2.1. Introduction
  1.2.2. Seismic velocity
  1.2.3. Electrical resistivity
  1.2.4. Dielectrical permittivity
  1.2.5. Resonance frequency
  1.3. Applications
  1.3.1. Introduction
  1.3.2. Plateau survey: Ravin de l'Aiguille
  1.3.3. Cliff survey: Gorge de la Bourne
  1.3.4. Column survey: Chamousset
  1.4. Conclusions
  1.5. Acknowledgments
  1.6. Bibliography
  ch. 2 Remote Sensing and Monitoring Techniques for the Characterization of Rock Mass Deformation and Change Detection / Thierry Villemin
  2.1. Introduction
  2.2. Main issues
  2.3. Investigation and monitoring techniques
  2.3.1. Geotechnical instrumentation: crackmeter, extensometer, tiltmeter
  2.3.2. Distancemeter
  2.3.3. Laser scanning
  2.3.4. High resolution imaging and photogrammetry
  2.3.5. Synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR)
  2.3.6. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS)
  2.4. Examples of applications
  2.4.1. Detection of rock slope instabilities
  2.4.2. Geometry and structure analysis
  2.4.3. Movement detection and characterization
  2.4.4. Monitoring and real-time warning
  2.5. Perspectives
  2.6. Conclusions
  2.7. Bibliography
  ch. 3 Mechanical Stability Analyses of Fractured Rock Slopes / Frederic-Victor Donze
  3.1. Introduction
  3.2. Experimental study of rock joint behavior
  3.2.1. Description of natural rock joints
  3.2.2. Compression behavior of natural rock joints
  3.2.3. Shear behavior of natural rock joints
  3.2.4. Behavior of natural rock joints under other loading paths
  3.3. Failure computations of rigid blocks
  3.3.1. Geometrical aspects of block failure Note continued: 3.3.2. Mechanical aspects of failure computation
  3.3.3. Examples of deterministic and probabilistic stability analyses
  3.3.4. Conclusion on failure computations
  3.4. Overview of different stress-strain analyses
  3.4.1. Different stress-strain method
  3.4.2. Continuous approaches with joints
  3.4.3. Discrete methods
  3.4.4. Distinct element modeling
  3.4.5. NSCD method
  3.4.6. Hybrid methods
  3.5. advanced stress-strain analysis of failure
  3.5.1. Framework of the analysis
  3.5.2. new rock joint constitutive relation: the INL2 relation
  3.5.3. Stability analysis of INL2 relation
  3.5.4. stress-strain analysis of a rock slope
  3.6. Conclusions
  3.7. Bibliography
  ch. 4 Assessment of Constitutive Behaviors in Jointed Rock Masses from aDEM Perspective / John Read
  4.1. Introduction
  4.2. Discrete Element Modeling of rock materials
  4.3. Representation of rock discontinuities
  4.3.1. Smooth joint contact
  4.3.2. Synthetic rock joint
  4.3.3. Shear behavior of rough joints
  4.4. Synthetic Rock Mass modeling methodology
  4.4.1. Rock mass structural representation
  4.4.2. Equivalent rock mass model
  4.4.3. Rock mass constitutive behavior
  4.4.4. Anisotropy in rock mass properties
  4.5. Analysis of specific mechanical behaviors: case studies
  4.5.1. Sensitivity of rock mass behavior to the joint fabric
  4.5.2. Scale effects
  4.6. Conclusions
  4.7. Bibliography
  ch. 5 Methods for Predicting Rockfall Trajectories and Run-out Zones / Vincent Labiouse
  5.1. Introduction
  5.2. Preparation of a rockfall trajectory study
  5.3. Definition of the release scenarios
  5.4. Rockfall models
  5.4.1. Different model types
  5.4.2. Rock shapes in trajectory models
  5.4.3. Spatial dimensions of trajectory models Note continued: 5.4.4. Modeled rockfall kinematics
  5.4.5. Accuracy of rockfall models
  5.4.6. Accounting for protective measures
  5.5. Plausibility check / validation of model output
  5.6. Fixing model results and translation into a readable map
  5.7. Future improvements
  5.8. Bibliography
  ch. 6 Rockfall Dynamics: A Critical Review of Collision and Rebound Models / Oldrich Hungr
  6.1. Introduction
  6.2. Physical processes associated with collision and rebound
  6.2.1. General description
  6.2.2. Influence of the slope properties
  6.2.3. Influence of the properties of the rock fragment
  6.3. Review of rebound models
  6.3.1. Real-scale rockfall experiments
  6.3.2. Lumped mass models
  6.3.3. Models explicitly accounting for the shape of the rocks
  6.3.4. Statistical models
  6.4. Perspectives and conclusions
  6.5. Bibliography
  ch. 7 Rockfall Hazard Zoning for Land Use Planning / Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese
  7.1. Introduction
  7.2. Rockfall zoning for urban development planning
  7.2.1. Terminology
  7.2.2. Types and levels of landslide zoning
  7.2.3. Guidelines
  7.3. Zoning methodologies at the regional/valley scale
  7.4. Zoning methodologies at the local scale
  7.4.1. Rating-based approaches
  7.4.2. Approaches coupling energy and return period
  7.4.3. Other approaches based on trajectory modeling results
  7.4.4. Summary
  7.5. Sources of uncertainties and differences in hazard zoning results
  7.5.1. Zoning methodology
  7.5.2. Departure zone
  7.5.3. Trajectory modeling
  7.6. Implications of zoning results in land use planning
  7.7. Conclusions
  7.8. Acknowledgments
  7.9. Bibliography
  ch. 8 Rockfall Quantitative Risk Assessment / Olga Mavrouli
  8.1. Introduction Note continued: 8.1.1. Rockfall hazard and risk assessment: qualitative vs. quantitative approaches
  8.1.2. Quantitative risk descriptors
  8.1.3. risk equation
  8.2. Objectives of the QRA
  8.2.1. Approaches for the analysis
  8.2.2. Source of data
  8.2.3. Risk scenarios
  8.3. Assessment of the rockfall risk components
  8.3.1. Rockfall occurrence (PR)
  8.3.2. Rockfall reach P(D:Ri)
  8.3.3. Exposure and vulnerability
  8.4. Examples of rockfall risk
  8.5. Bibliography
  ch. 9 Multi-scale Analysis of an Innovative Flexible Rockfall Barrier / Philippe Robit
  9.1. Introduction
  9.2. Presentation of rockfall protection nets
  9.3. Presentation of tools used for the numerical simulation
  9.3.1. Finite element method
  9.3.2. Discrete element method
  9.4. Characterization of the net
  9.4.1. Clip scale
  9.4.2. Cable scale
  9.4.3. Mesh scale
  9.4.4. Net scale
  9.5. Characterization of the energy dissipators
  9.5.1. Classical dissipators working by friction
  9.5.2. new innovative dissipator working by buckling
  9.6. Full scale test on the barrier
  9.6.1. Experimental data
  9.6.2. DEM numerical simulations at the structure scale
  9.7. Conclusion and perspectives
  9.8. Bibliography
  ch. 10 New Design Method for Rockfall Shelters Covered by Granular Layers / Claudio di Prisco
  10.1. Definition of the impact phenomenon
  10.2. Real scale experiments
  10.2.1. Description of the shelter and testing campaign
  10.2.2. Description of a typical impact
  10.2.3. From impact force to structural response
  10.2.4. Soil-plate interaction and dynamic response of the shelter
  10.3. uncoupled approach for the definition of impact actions
  10.3.1. Modeling tools
  10.3.2. Evaluation of the impact force (input)
  10.3.3. Modeling of the stress propagation (output) Note continued: 10.3.4. Modeling of the dynamic structural response
  10.4. Conclusions
  10.5. Acknowledgments
  10.6. Bibliography
  ch. 11 Design Procedure for a Three-Layer Absorbing System in Rockfall Protection Galleries / Hisashi Kon-No
  11.1. Introduction
  11.2. Standard impact design formula for sand cushion
  11.3. Absorbing performance of sand cushion and TLAS
  11.3.1. General view of experiment
  11.3.2. Time histories of transmitted impact stress
  11.3.3. Time histories of impact forces
  11.3.4. Distribution of maximum transmitted impact forces vs. input impact energy
  11.4. Design concept for TLAS
  11.5. Estimate of impact energy transmitted to EPS bottom layer
  11.6. Design of reinforced concrete core slab
  11.7. Estimate of required thickness of EPS bottom layer
  11.8. Estimate of impact force transmitted to gallery roof slab
  11.9. Verification of proposed design procedure
  11.10. Conclusion
  11.11. Bibliography
  ch. 12 Ground Reinforced Embankments for Rockfall Protection: From Real Scale Tests to Numerical Modeling / Daniele Peila
  12.1. Introduction
  12.2. Full-scale tests on embankments
  12.3. Numerical modeling of ground reinforced embankments
  12.3.1. Back analysis of full scale tests on ground reinforced embankments
  12.3.2. Parametrical analysis of ground reinforced embankments
  12.3.3. Back analysis of a real impact against an embankment
  12.4. Conclusions
  12.5. Acknowledgments
  12.6. Bibliography.