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Research article
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17 Jan 2020
Research article |
| 17 Jan 2020
| 17 Jan 2020
Modeling snow slab avalanches caused by weak-layer failure – Part 2: Coupled mixed-mode criterion for skier-triggered anticracks
Philipp L. Rosendahl
2phi GbR, Tübingen, Germany
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2phi GbR, Tübingen, Germany
Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research and Advance Engineering,
Renningen, Germany
ARENA2036 research campus, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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Short summary
Dry-snow slab avalanche release is preceded by a fracture process within the snowpack. Recognizing weak layer collapse as an integral part of the fracture process is crucial and explains phenomena such as whumpf sounds and remote triggering of avalanches from low-angle terrain. In this second part of the two-part work we propose a novel mixed-mode coupled stress and energy failure criterion for nucleation of weak layer failure due to external loading of the snowpack.
Dry-snow slab avalanche release is preceded by a fracture process within the snowpack....
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