TY - GEN
T1 - Rockfall monitoring system for improving road safety
AU - Agioutantis, Z.
AU - Mertikas, S.
AU - Daskalakis, A.
AU - Tripolitsiotis, A.
AU - Kritikakis, G.
AU - Apostolou, E.
AU - Steiakakis, C.
AU - Kaplanidis, G.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Rockfall incidents that may lead to road closure, infrastructure damage and loss of human life are common in European highways and mountainous roads. The "ISTRIA" research project aims to establish a low-cost rock-fall monitoring and warning system based on a variety of multidisciplinary sensors and instruments. This paper presents the setup and preliminary results of several experiments conducted to evaluate the performance of geophones to capture low energy ground vibrations caused by small rock free fall. It was determined that geophones have the potential to be used as monitoring sensors for rock-fall identification. Moreover, the empirical equations that were utilized to optimize geophone spacing yielded promising results.
AB - Rockfall incidents that may lead to road closure, infrastructure damage and loss of human life are common in European highways and mountainous roads. The "ISTRIA" research project aims to establish a low-cost rock-fall monitoring and warning system based on a variety of multidisciplinary sensors and instruments. This paper presents the setup and preliminary results of several experiments conducted to evaluate the performance of geophones to capture low energy ground vibrations caused by small rock free fall. It was determined that geophones have the potential to be used as monitoring sensors for rock-fall identification. Moreover, the empirical equations that were utilized to optimize geophone spacing yielded promising results.
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U2 - 10.1201/b16955-166
DO - 10.1201/b16955-166
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84901345235
SN - 9781138001497
T3 - Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses - Proceedings of EUROCK 2014, ISRM European Regional Symposium
SP - 965
EP - 970
BT - Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics
T2 - 2014 ISRM European Regional Symposium on Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses, EUROCK 2014
Y2 - 26 May 2014 through 28 May 2014
ER -