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Research article
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10 Jan 2020
Research article |
| 10 Jan 2020
| 10 Jan 2020
Micromechanical modeling of snow failure
Grégoire Bobillier
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Bastian Bergfeld
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Achille Capelli
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Jürg Dual
Institute for Mechanical Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Johan Gaume
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
SLAB Snow and Avalanche Simulation Laboratory, EPFL Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alec van Herwijnen
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
Jürg Schweizer
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
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