Surava

Experiments Rockfall – Surava

The Surava experimental trilogy has been performed in a forest slot where periodic forrestry work lead to a cut of some of the existing trees. The data consists runs within the undisturbed forest, runs with the lying, cut trees and a final experimental session after the clearance of the lying logs. Experimental boundary conditions only permitted the use of small 46 kg EOTA(111) cubic rocks. The data set serves as a challenging calibration set for ongoing forrest implementations within the RAMMS::ROCKFALL module, above all with respect to accurate tree distribution, in-detail analysis of surface roughness of typical forest soils and accurate behaviour of runout.

Overview of the Surava experimental trilogy comprising runs with standing trees, lying trees and removed trees. The exact tree locations as well as the lying trees have been manually recorded during the field campaings.

To be continued…