Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-689-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-689-2014
Research article
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27 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 27 Mar 2014

A reliability assessment of physical vulnerability of reinforced concrete walls loaded by snow avalanches

P. Favier, D. Bertrand, N. Eckert, and M. Naaim

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