Seasonal snow in mountains is a bonded granular material for which failure depends on deformation rate and strain conditions. Failure characteristics of slowly deformed alpine snow are interpreted in terms of the following two mechanisms: (1) micro-fracturing of bonds that can produce loss of stiffness, a peak on the deformation curve and subsequent strain-softening; and (2) plastic slip and associated effects such as compaction, regelation, and bond formation (healing) that produce strain-hardening. Data indicate that alpine snow displays a strong tendency for plastic slip and hardening effects when compressive deformation is present. It appears that some aspects of rate effects are understandable in terms of competition between micro-frac...
The hardness observations taken in the Canadian Snow Survey are analysed and found to depend on snow...
Dry slab snow avalanches represent a major natural hazard that is extremely difficult to manage. Att...
International audienceThe mechanisms controlling the snow mechanical behavior remains poorly underst...
Snow temperatures have important influences on snow slab stability and potential for propagating she...
Field observations and measurements show that all snow slab failures have some common features. The ...
Fracture mechanics has been applied for over 30 years to explain the release of slab avalanches, but...
ABSTRACT. Using a direct simple-shear apparatus. snow samples (115mm in dia meter, 16-lHmm in height...
peer reviewedThe mechanical behaviour of snow was long studied to help predict natural hazards, like...
International audienceWeak layers of snow are thin layers of low density and cohesion that consist o...
ABSTRACT. Dry-snow slab avalanches initiate from a failure in a weak snow layer below a cohesive sla...
Abstract- It is known that snow metamorphism is initially. en by the tendency of individual snow gra...
skier triggering Field observations and experience show that snow tem-peratures can have a strong in...
ABSTRACT: Natural dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure within a weak snow layer. In order t...
ABSTRACT. The release of a dry-snow slab avalanche involves brittle fracture. It is therefore essent...
[1] Dry snow slab avalanches release as a result of the failure of a weakly bonded layer located bel...
The hardness observations taken in the Canadian Snow Survey are analysed and found to depend on snow...
Dry slab snow avalanches represent a major natural hazard that is extremely difficult to manage. Att...
International audienceThe mechanisms controlling the snow mechanical behavior remains poorly underst...
Snow temperatures have important influences on snow slab stability and potential for propagating she...
Field observations and measurements show that all snow slab failures have some common features. The ...
Fracture mechanics has been applied for over 30 years to explain the release of slab avalanches, but...
ABSTRACT. Using a direct simple-shear apparatus. snow samples (115mm in dia meter, 16-lHmm in height...
peer reviewedThe mechanical behaviour of snow was long studied to help predict natural hazards, like...
International audienceWeak layers of snow are thin layers of low density and cohesion that consist o...
ABSTRACT. Dry-snow slab avalanches initiate from a failure in a weak snow layer below a cohesive sla...
Abstract- It is known that snow metamorphism is initially. en by the tendency of individual snow gra...
skier triggering Field observations and experience show that snow tem-peratures can have a strong in...
ABSTRACT: Natural dry-snow slab avalanches start with a failure within a weak snow layer. In order t...
ABSTRACT. The release of a dry-snow slab avalanche involves brittle fracture. It is therefore essent...
[1] Dry snow slab avalanches release as a result of the failure of a weakly bonded layer located bel...
The hardness observations taken in the Canadian Snow Survey are analysed and found to depend on snow...
Dry slab snow avalanches represent a major natural hazard that is extremely difficult to manage. Att...
International audienceThe mechanisms controlling the snow mechanical behavior remains poorly underst...