Vegetation acts as a reinforcement for slopes due to the penetration of roots into the ground. The aim of the project is to contribute to a sophisticated software for the prediction of the three-dimensional numerical analysis of slope stabilized with vegetation.

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Projekte der FE Gebirgshydrolgie und Massenbewegungen

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Projekte der FE Gebirgshydrolgie und Massenbewegungen

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The signal created by the kinetic impacts of bedload material registered by the geophone over an impact plate is a possible way to quantify bedload transport (The number of impulses per unit time being proportional to the total bedload volume of an event). The project aims to identify the main factors influencing the response of the geophone and to determine which aspects of calibration can be generalized in un-calibrated field sites. Further on, the possibility to extract grain size information from the geophone measurements will be explored

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Das Unwetterereignis vom 10. Oktober 2011 hat schwere Schäden im Wallis, im Berner Oberland und in der Zentralschweiz ausgelöst.

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In this project the effect of erosion by bedload transport is investigated in mountain streams.

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The project HYDRALP deals with the topic of transport processes such as debris flows and fluvial bedload transport during flood events in torrents and mountain rivers of the canton Valais

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This is a poly-project on the hydrological triggering of shallow landslides, debris flows and snow avalanches within the ETH Competence Centre for Environment and Sustainability

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Die Beurteilung der Gefahr durch spontane, flachgründige Rutschungen und Hangmuren ist schwierig. Immer wieder ereignen sich in verschiedenen Regionen der Schweiz Unwetter, bei denen jeweils Hunderte von flachgründigen Rutschungen entstehen. Derartige Ereignisse sind jeweils gute Gelegenheiten, die Prozesskenntnisse zu erweitern und die Grundlagen hinsichtlich Gefahrenkartierung zu verbessern.

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Accurate measurements of bedload transport in natural channels are important to improve process understanding and predictive methods. The geophone sensors of the WSL provide continuous measurements with high temporal resolution.

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