Snow traction is a key performance characteristic for tire design. Designing snow tires
requires extensive testing on snow-covered proving grounds. Thus, numerical simulation …

Snow accumulation alters the energy budget of engineered (ie photovoltaic panels) and
natural surfaces (ie earth) by affecting the amount of solar energy these surfaces can …

Continuum numerical modeling of dynamic crack propagation has been a great challenge
over the past decade. This is particularly the case for anticracks in porous materials, as …

Snow avalanche hazard is threatening people and infrastructure in all alpine regions with
seasonal or permanent snow cover around the globe. Co** with this hazard is a big …

The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but
insufficient, condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avalanche. The size of the crack in …

Snow cover models support avalanche forecasting. However, despite much development to
derive snow instability from snow cover model output, snow cover models presently do not …

A snow slab avalanche releases after failure initiation and crack propagation in a highly
porous weak snow layer buried below a cohesive slab. While our knowledge of crack …

Snow slab avalanches, characterized by a distinct, broad fracture line, are released
following anticrack propagation in highly porous weak snow layers buried below cohesive …

Snow avalanche as a natural disaster severely affects socio-economic and geomorphic
processes through damaging ecosystems, vegetation, landscape, infrastructures …

Snow slab avalanches start with a failure in a weak snow layer buried below a cohesive
snow slab. After failure, the very porous character of the weak layer leads to its volumetric …