Soil andwater bioengineering is a technology that encourages scientists and practitioners to combine their knowledge and skills in the management of ecosystems with a common goal to maximize benefits to both man and the natural environment. It involves techniques that use plants as living building materials, for: (i) natural hazard control (e.g., s...
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The spatial variability of snowpack properties has an important impact on snow slope stability and thus on avalanche formation. Hence, the determination of the link between these spatial variations and slope stability is very important, in particular for avalanche public forecasting. In this study, a statistical-mechanical model of the slab-weak la...
Vegetation is increasingly used to protect artificial and natural slopes against shallow landslides. Mechanically, plant roots reinforce soil along a slope by providing cohesion(cr). cr is usually estimated using either of two models : a Wu and Waldron's Model(WWM)or a Fiber Bundle Model(FBM). The WWM assumes that all fine and medium roots break si...
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CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council)
CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council)
CNPq (Brazilian National Research Council)
