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INVESTIGATION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF ROCKFALL FLEXIBLE BARRIERS BY NUMERICAL SIMULATION

Session: Landslide and Slope Stability / Mouvements de terrain et stabilité des pentes

Massoud Palassi, University of Tehran (Iran)
Saeed Askar, University of Tehran (Iran)

One of the commonly protective measures against rockfall in roads and railways is flexible barrier kits. In this paper, the finite element method is used to study the behavior of flexible rockfall barriers. The effect of various parameters such as angle of collision and location of impact on mesh and number of spans is investigated. It is noted that such analyses can be very useful in proper design of rockfall barriers.