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A Unified Conceptual Framework for Gravitational Instabilities: From Latent System State to Failure
Jérome Faillettaz
Gravitational instabilities are among the most widespread natural hazards and are expected to become increasingly significant under ongoing environmental change. Despite substantia…
Co-detection of micro seismic activity as early warning of gravitational slope failure
Jerome Faillettaz, Martin Funk, Jan Beutel +1
We developed a new strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction for gravitational slope failure: We propose a simple method for real-time early warning of gravity-driven failures that cons…
Co-detection of acoustic emissions during failure of heterogeneous media: new perspectives for natural hazard early warning
J. Faillettaz, D. Or, I. Reiweger
A promising method for real time early warning of gravity driven rupture that considers both the heterogeneity of natural media and characteristics of acoustic emissions attenuatio…
Failure modes of complex materials with spatially-correlated mechanical properties -- the critical role of internal damage
Jerome Faillettaz, Dani Or
The study reports a systematic evaluation of the role of spatially correlated mechanical elements on failure behavior of heterogeneous materials represented by fiber bundle models…
Prediction of alpine glacier sliding instabilities: a new hope
Jerome Faillettaz, Martin Funk, Didier Sornette
Mechanical and sliding instabilities are the two processes which may lead to breaking off events of large ice masses. Mechanical instabilities mainly affect unbalanced cold hanging…
Climate warming and stability of cold hanging glaciers: Lessons from the gigantic 1895 Altels break-off
Jerome Faillettaz, Didier Sornette, Martin Funk
The Altels hanging glacier broke off on September 11, 1895. The ice volume of this catastrophic rupture was estimated at cubic meters and is the largest ever observed…
Icequakes coupled with surface displacements for predicting glacier break-off
Jerome Faillettaz, Didier Sornette, Martin Funk
A hanging glacier at the east face of Weisshorn (Switzerland) broke off in 2005. We were able to monitor and measure surface motion and icequake activity for 25 days up to three da…
Icequakes as precursors of ice avalanches
J. Faillettaz, M. Funk, D. Sornette
A hanging glacier at the east face of Weisshorn broke off in 2005. We were able to monitor and measure surface motion and icequake activity for 21 days up to three days prior to th…
Gravity-driven instabilities: interplay between state-and-velocity dependent frictional sliding and stress corrosion damage cracking
Jerome Faillettaz, Didier Sornette, Martin Funk
We model the progressive maturation of a heterogeneous mass towards a gravity-driven instability, characterized by the competition between frictional sliding and tension cracking,…
A Two-Threshold Model for Scaling Laws of Non-Interacting Snow Avalanches
Jerome Faillettaz, Francois Louchet, Jean-Robert Grasso
The sizes of snow slab failure that trigger snow avalanches are power-law distributed. Such a power-law probability distribution function has also been proposed to characterize dif…