<p>Soft rockfall barriers are complex structures that generally consist of a metallic net supported by steel posts and cables with brake elements. Several experimental and numerical studies have been carried out to evaluate their behaviour and a technical ...

Structures designed to protect the areas around a slope from falling rocks include mesh or cable nets, barriers and fences, and catchment areas (ditches at the toe of a slope, designed to prevent rockfall from reaching the highway). These devices allow ...

<p>Mumbai-Pune, India&rsquo;s first expressway, which crosses the mountainous and rugged Deccan Trap Province, suffered from a large amount of rockfall and major landslides in 2003 and 2004. A significant number of accidents and fatalities have occurred on ...

<p>Tempi Valley is the last remaining bottleneck along the Athens - Thessaloniki<br />motorway. 20&rsquo;000 cars are passing the 8 km long gorge each day.<br />After two consectutive rockfall events, in which one more person lost their<br />live, the Agean ...

<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 ...

Following a major rockfall event in 1987, two types of protection measures were taken in the village Saint Martin le Vinoux (French Alps). Firstly, technical measures using civil engineering were installed, and secondly, a forest management intervention to ...

<p>In Japan, slope disasters occur due to earthquakes, abnormal weather and inappropriate land development. It is important to identify safe and economical countermeasures against rockfall disasters. We developed a simple, long-lasting and low-cost structure ...

Models can be useful tools to assess the risk posed by rockfall throughout relatively large mountainous areas (&gt;500 km2), in order to improve protection of endangered residential areas and infrastructure. Therefore the purpose of this study was to summarize ...

In this chapter an overview of rockfall types and stabilization measures are presented.

Accurate prediction of rockfalls is practically impossible. Variability in slope geometry, poorly defined initial conditions, uncertain material properties (especially coefficients of restitution) and an analysis method that is sensitive to minor changes in ...