Erosion of rock cliffs has been considered to be relatively unpredictable. This perceived stochastic nature of the erosional processes often occurs through collapses along fractures in the rock-mass. The prediction of catastrophic cliff failures and collapses ...

The prediction of rockfall travel distance below a rock cliff is an indispensable activity in rockfall susceptibility, hazard and risk assessment. Although the size of the detached rock mass may differ considerably at each specific rock cliff, small rockfall ...

In this study the east and west rupture directions of the 1943 and 1944 earthquakes on the North AnatolianFault (NAF) are hypothesized to represent, respectively, long term preferred propagation directions on the corresponding sections of the NAF. To test ...

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 ...

Yucheng District of Ya'an City in China, the so-called rainy city of Sichuan province, is chosen as the research target for this paper. Based on rich practical data, the paper describes in-depth research into various factors affecting the occurrence of landslides, ...

Three case-histories are aimed to show possibilities how to use results of dilatometric measurements of relative displacements on rock cracks to assess actual rock slope instability and to make time-predictions of a rock fall. The prediction of a collapse ...