How do small cracks turn into gigantic submarine slides? Zhang and Puzrin (2022) use numerical simulations to elucidate this transition from initial failure to subsequent growth of weakened sediment. Check out Michel Louge's highlight: fal.cn/3qq4r #AGUPubs

Numerical simulations based on the Material Point Method revealed a transition from slow (sub-Rayleigh) #anticrack to fast #supershear crack propagation. This transition may occur at distances about 3-5 meters if the slope is steep enough.

Mathieu Schaer, former EPFL-ENAC student, professional snowboarder and #environment #engineer MétéoSuisse send me this video a couple of years ago. The analysis of changes in pixel intensity frame by frame, confirmed the outcome of numerical simulations. 🎥 (c) Titouan Bessire

The physics of snow slab avalanches similar to that of earthquakes. By expanding the scale for snow slab avalanche simulations scientists EPFL-ENAC and @SLFDavos obtained a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying these events. actu.epfl.ch/news/the-physi…

Zhengshou & Shiwei Zhao's new paper accepted in Computational Mechanics on a Signed Distance Field (SDF) approach for effective DEM modeling of contact problems involving particles of arbitrary shapes. Shown is mixing of nuts, bolts & grains. Read preprint: bit.ly/3p0jyq0

#20years of the EPFL-ENAC faculty 😊🎉🙌🏻! Thanks to SLAB students and postdocs for presenting our research at the SwissTech Convention Center 🤝 #MeetInSwitzerland

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The International Symposium on #Snow just started in #Davos. Looking forward to interesting presentations and discussions. Thanks Int. Glaciol. Soc., @SLFDavos, Jürg Schweizer (here on the photo) and the organizing committee for bringing the snow and avalanche community back together 😊!

First day working at ETH Zürich x @WSL_research 😊. #PhD and #PostDoc positions related to #Alpine mass movements and #granular #mechanics will open shortly. @SLFDavos

After having published a breakthrough research about the #Dyatlov Pass Mystery, Johan Gaume, EPFL-ENAC and @SLFDavos, and Prof. Alexander Puzrin, ETH Zurich, will introduce a documentary directed by Matteo Born about the whole story on Thursday 13 October EPFL. SLAB

This Thursday at 5:15 pm in CM3, the Environmental Sciences and Engineering section (EPFL-ENAC) invites you to the projection of a documentary on the Dyatlov Mystery directed by Matteo Born, and a speech by Johan Gaume and Alexander Puzrin. Trailer : go.epfl.ch/63d0c6

I am looking for 2 #PhD students and 1 #PostDoc researcher in the field of #alpine #mass #movements in my new group @SLFDavos and ETH Zürich Details and applications here 👉 slf.ch/en/about-the-s… 📸 Andrea Badrutt - AWN Graübunden - 2017 Piz Cengalo

Looking forward to a storm of ideas and good research! Session C08 Modeling, monitoring and predicting alpine mass movements. With Johan Gaume and others not on twitter. See you at IUGG iugg2023berlin.org

Congratulation Lars 🙌🏻🎉! « Microstructural controls on the plastic consolidation of porous brittle solids » published in Acta_Materialia EPFL ETH Zürich @SLFDavos @WSL_research #CERC

Our #ALMO group ETH Zürich & @SLFDavos is now on Twitter! #ALMO #Alpine #Mass #Movements Graubünden @WSL_research

The SLAB group has moved to ETH Zürich and @SLFDavos and has become #ALMO the Chair of #Alpine #Mass #Movements led by Prof. Johan Gaume. But #SLAB will be back, in a different format 😉!

Congrats Camille Ligneau for this #research on « modeling #erosion, #entrainment & #deposition in #cohesive #granular #flows » with application to #snow #avalanches Link @elsevier #CRST 👇: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @eth @SLFDavos #DEM @BettySovilla Johan Gaume #ALMO

#ff Are you interested in avalanches, debris flows, and rockfalls in mountain environments? Then follow the new Chair of Alpine Mass Movements research group!

Come work with us 😊 Chair of Alpine Mass Movements ETH Zürich @SLFDavos @WSL_research

ALMO for ALpine mass MOvements: Our logo features a mountain at its heart, and is composed of all letters in ALMO. The dotted #hashtag illustrates our numerical methods: Lagrangian, Eulerian, or hybrid. #ALMO #AlpineScience 🏔️ Johan Gaume ETH Zürich @SLFDavos @WSL_research