The design of slushflow barriers: Laboratory experiments

• Main Author: Katrín Helga Ágústsdóttir 1994-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Vélaverkfræði; Snjóflóð; Krapaflóð; Snjóflóðavarnir; Veita; Breakwater; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/33197

Snow avalanches and slushflows have endangered Icelanders since the settlement,particularly in the northern-, eastern- and north-western part of Iceland, and havecost many human lives. While snow avalanches are usually the main threat, somevillages in the north-west are threatened by slushflows as w...