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Feng Wang, Peng Huang, Rongxin Zhao, Huayong Wu, Mengjin Sun, Zijie Zhou and Yun Xing
Debris poses multifaceted risks and jeopardizes various aspects of the environment, human health, safety, and infrastructure. The debris trajectory in turbulent wind flow is more dispersed due to the inherent randomness of the turbulent winds. This paper...
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Michal Zielina, Agata Pawlowska-Salach and Karol Kaczmarski
A passive wedge screen, thanks to its many functional and environmental advantages, has recently become a popular type of surface water intake for municipal and industrial purposes. The design solutions proposed in this paper for a passive wedge wire scr...
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Zhiquan Yang, Xuguang Zhao, Mao Chen, Jie Zhang, Yi Yang, Wentao Chen, Xianfu Bai, Miaomiao Wang and Qi Wu
Niumiangou valley, the epicenter of the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (MS 8.0), became an area with frequent and dense debris flow disasters post-earthquake. Based on the in situ investigations after the earthquake on 14 August 2010 and a series of gat...
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Yi-Min Huang and Chien-Chih Chen
In recent years, due to the frequent occurrence of extreme weather due to climate change, the Taiwan region has often suffered from landslides and debris flows in the past 20 years. This study used the ground surface vibration signals collected by the ge...
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Donatella Termini and Antonio Fichera
Today, Bagnold?s theory is still applied to gravity-driven flows under the assumption of uniform sediment concentration. This study presents findings of flume experiments conducted to investigate the velocity and concentration distributions within the de...
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Anping Shu, Shu Wang, Matteo Rubinato, Mengyao Wang, Jiping Qin and Fuyang Zhu
Dam-break flows may change into debris flows if certain conditions are satisfied, such as abundant loose material and steep slope. These debris flows are typically characterized by high density and can generate strong impact forces. Due to the complexity...
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Man-Il Kim and Jae-Hwan Kwak
Studies have been conducted to understand the physical characteristics of debris flows and quantitatively assess the vulnerability of the buildings nearby to mitigate damage from debris flow disasters. However, there remains a paucity of research on vuln...
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Dongxu Yang, Yong You, Wanyu Zhao, Hai Huang, Hao Sun and Yang Liu
Debris flow gullies have high potential energy and geomorphic characteristics including a steep longitudinal slope and abundant loose material sources. They often experience debris flow with a strong impact force and a large instantaneous flow. Drainage ...
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Dieter Issler
Data on the disastrous snow avalanche that occurred on 18 January 2017 at the spa hotel Rigopiano, municipality of Farindola in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, are analyzed in different ways. The main results are the following. (i) The 2017 Rigopian...
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Chaman Lal Sabharwal and Yanlin Guo
Numerous post-windstorm investigations have reported that windborne debris can cause costly damage to the envelope of buildings in urban areas under strong winds (e.g., during hurricanes or tornados). Thus, understanding the physics of debris flight is o...
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