WSL Institut pour l’étude de la neige et des avalanches SLF
Fonction
Chercheur invité
Environnement alpin et dangers naturels
RAMMS Rapid Mass Movements
WSL-Institut für Schnee- und Lawinenforschung SLF
Flüelastrasse 11
7260 Davos Dorf
Site
SLF Davos Da D 2 05
I am interested in the protective effect of forests against rock- and blockfalls. In order to quantify this effect on a large scale, we depend on rockfall models, which have to be calibrated. This requires real-scale experiments, such as those in the video, carried out in Schiers (Switzerland, canton of Grisons) with block masses up to 840 kg and different block shapes.