Integrated evaluation of rockfall triggering mechanism for road monitoring

Evangelia Apostolou; Zacharias Agioutantis; Chrysanthos Steiakakis

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09057-3_350

Integrated evaluation of rockfall triggering mechanism for road monitoring

Evangelia Apostolou, Zacharias Agioutantis, Chrysanthos Steiakakis

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Abstract

Rockfalls in mountainous roads may result in increasing hazards for vehicles and people. Cases of rockfalls with fatalities or great disruption of traffic have been reported in the news and account for significant money loss. Unfortunately due to the complexity of the phenomenon of a single or a few rocks detachment, it has not been studied extensively and data relating to triggering of such phenomena are scarce. In this paper a first attempt is made to gather and analyze available published case studies where the triggering mechanisms of rockfalls are presented. The most significant triggering mechanisms are presented and the resulting rockfalls are analyzed based on the collected data. This work is part of a project aiming to monitor and evaluate rockfall phenomena in Greek highways. .

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2
Subtitle of host publication	Landslide Processes
Pages	1975-1978
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319090573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09057-3_350
State	Published - Jan 1 2015

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Keywords

Greece
Rockfalls
Triggering Mechanisms

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences
General Environmental Science

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