Avalanche Mechanics

• Main Author: Moskalev,Yu. D.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*AVALANCHES; MOTION); (*SNOW; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES); TERRAIN; STABILITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; VISCOELASTICITY; MOUNTAINS; SEISMIC WAVES; SAFETY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION; USSR; TRANSLATIONS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0715049; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0715049

Contents: Some strength characteristics of snow; Water filtration properties of snow; Viscoplastic flow of snow on slopes; Snow layer stability coefficient; Computation of stability of the snow layer on a flat slope; Inverse computations of strength parameters of snow; Influence of seismic accelerations on avalanche formation; Equilibrium of the snow cover on convex and concave parts of slopes; Computation of movement of avalanches; Nomograms for computing the movement of avalanches; and Simplified equations of motion of avalanches. Trans. of mono. Vozniknovenie i Dvizhenie Lavin, Leningrad, 1966 152p.