This contribution provides an overview of previous and current research on the main topics related to rockfall.

Rockfall is an extremely rapid process involving long travel distances. Due to these features, when an event occurs, the ability to take evasive action is practically zero and, thus, the risk of injury or loss of life is high. Damage to buildings and infrastructure ...

<p>Flexible rockfall barriers are proven protection systems to mitigate the hazard<br />of rocks falling on people and infrastructure. To assure that such systems are<br />able to dynamically stop falling rocks in reality, several guidelines with fullscale<br ...

<p>To fully understand the protection effect of the forest, the single tree behaviour must be accurately known. However, trees are complex biomechanical systems especially regarding their interactions with rock boulders. A single tree dissipates energy during ...

<p>The design of todays state-of-the-art rockfall barriers is currently based on experience and time consuming experimentation. Advanced simulation models are now under development to reduce prototyping time and de- velopment costs and will also provide a ...