Evacuation or protection? Risk analysis as a tool for decision making in the case of a residential building endangered by rockfall / Aussiedlung oder Schutz? Die Risikoanalyse als Entscheidungsgrundlage im Fall eines durch Steinschlag bedrohten Wohnhauses
Author(s): |
Johann Thomas Sausgruber
Michael Mölk Ivo Schreiner |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2012, n. 4, v. 5 |
Page(s): | 355-367 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201200023 |
Abstract: |
In April 2011, a 2 m³ block fell out of a steep rock face in Wipptal, Tyrol, Austria and fell onto a detached house. No one was injured as the house was empty at the time. In a similar event in the 1980s, the garage of a neighbouring house was hit. An initial report found a high danger potential to the house. The house was then evacuated and the inhabitants considered moving out. Regarding the feasibility and possibility of financing protection measures, and as an aid to deciding whether to move out, there is a need for a decision-making basis for the victims and the authorities, and this should be as objective as possible. For this purpose, a risk analysis was carried out including the consideration of engineering-geological, geotechnical and forestry methods. |
Keywords: |
rockfall protection hazard analysis event analysis evacuation
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