Keynote lecture. Modelling flow-landslides impact against protection structures

Abstract

Dynamic impact of flow-like landslides against protection structures calls for a sound understanding of the interaction mechanisms. In fact, despite a large variety of flow-landslides, there is also a significant availability of several types of protection works and many different modelling approaches, which have been customized to the specific classes of flow-landslides and protection structurers. Some remarks are reported below in a design-oriented engineering framework.