Long runout landslides: a solution from granular mechanics
Large landslides exhibit surprisingly long runout distances compared to a rigid body sliding from the same slope, and the mechanism of this phenomena has been studied for decades. This paper shows that the observed long runouts can be explained quite simply via a granular pile flowing downhill, whil...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physics |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2015.00080/full |