Debris flow impact estimation on a rigid barrier

Vagnon, Federico; Segalini, Andrea

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1691-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1691-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1691-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 7

Research article

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22 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 22 Jul 2016

Debris flow impact estimation on a rigid barrier

Federico Vagnon and Andrea Segalini

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Jul 2016)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Scale effect', Anna Maria Ferrero, 31 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Short Comment by Anna Maria Ferrero', Federico Vagnon, 22 Apr 2016
RC1: 'interesting paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonimous Referee #1', Federico Vagnon, 22 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Design of barriers to control mud-flows', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Federico Vagnon, 17 May 2016

Short summary

This study has the aim of reviewing the dynamics of debris flow impact against rigid structures and providing a new simple formulation to predict peak thrust. The proposed equation differs from other formulations because it takes into account flow characteristics, material properties, and barrier dimensions. The developed model is sufficiently capable of predicting measured force during the laboratory tests.