... 1 Introduction Large rockslides are characterized by complex spatial and temporal evolution, with non-linear displacement trends and significant effects of seasonal or occasional events. Forecasting landslide motion and collapse is a fundamental task for hazard zonation and the design of risk...

... for excavation and subsequent backfilling of deposition tunnels, thus reducing overall costs of the repository closure (Posiva 2014). 2 Drift stability and rock damage zone evolution The rock mechanics site characterization program of Olkiluoto aims to describe the initial state and properties of the host...

... (Eberhardt et al. 2004). At the Preonzo rock slope instability complex, such rupture planes from different failure events can be analyzed in detail which gives an insight into the structural evolution and progressive failure of brittle rock slope instabilities in time and space. 2 The Preonzo rock slope...

... 1 Introduction Large slopes in alpine environments undergo a complex long-term evolution from glacial to postglacial conditions through a transient period of paraglacial readjustment. During and after this transition the interplay among rock strength, topographic relief and morpho-climatic...

... to accelerating creep in heterogeneous brittle rocks using the relative roles of the renormalization, the stochastic strength field, the progressive localization, and the transition from tensile to shear events at different stages of damage evolution. 2 Numerical model When formulating the model...

... 1 Abstract The main goal of this study is to describe the spatial and temporal evolution of rock fall phenomena triggered by rapid slope deformation. To this end, we combine low cost seismic sensors and image processing to study a large instability adjacent to the Great Aletsch glacier...