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 ...

This paper presents results of an iterative sequence of tests and improvements of a coupled rockfall and forest dynamics model with focus on the rockfall module.

This study reveals that disturbance induced under natural conditions triggers more intense and more widespread anatomical responses than that induced under artificial stimuli, and that experimental laboratory tests considerably underestimate tree response. ...

We used one of the few rockfall models explicitly taking trees into account and compared the results obtained with the 3D simulation model RockyFor with empirical data on tree impacts at three mountain forests in Switzerland. Even though we used model input ...

It is still uncertain what a mountain forest should look like to provide optimal protection against rockfall. Knowledge is limited due to the slow reaction of mountain forests to the rapid environmental and socio-economic changes that have occurred in the ...

Forest dynamics have long-term impacts on the effectiveness of mountain forests in providing protection against natural hazards, but these are difficult to study because of the long time periods involved. We addressed this difficulty using simulation models, ...

Only a few rockfall simulation models take into account the mitigating effect of existing forest cover. The objective of our study was to improve the generic rockfall simulation model RockyFor, which does take the effect of forest stands into account, thereby ...

<p>This paper is about rockfall experiments on a forested slope in the French Alps and the analysis of nine recordings of nine impacts causing instantaneous breakage of Abies alba Mill. Trees.</p>

It is investigated whether a GIS-based distributed model developed for rockfall assessment at slope scale, which uses data with a support of 2.562.5 m, could be used for rockfall assessment at the regional scale, using input data with a support of 25625m and ...