The remarkable story of the bus-sized boulders that rolled through an Italian farm at the beginning of February now has some amazing aerial video footage to go with it. Check it out.
[Source: YouTube via AEG Insider. Image: YouTube]
Thank you to my old colleague at URS Corporation, Andy Messer for sending me a link to these videos. The are from an Austrian company, Trumer Schutzbauten, that provides products and research related to rockfall fences. The first video is presumably to show the hazards of camping next to hazardous rock slopes…good fun! Click through for the videos.
In Walenstadt, Switzerland, on October 16, 2017, a rockfall barrier from the Swiss company Geobrugg, stops the impact energy of 10,000 kilojoules – a new world record! The barrier system was tested using a 25-ton […]
Geotechnical software company Rocscience is building the hype ahead of the launch of their newest product, RocFall3. The program will extend their popular 2d rockfall simulation software to the next dimension, allowing assessment of complex […]
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