brief communication: accuracy of the fallen blocks volume-frequency law
;V. De Biagi
anziam journal2017Vol. 17pp. 1487-1492
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biagi2017naturalbrief
Abstract
De Biagi et al. (2017) have proposed a
procedure for building a fallen block volume-frequency law for rockfall
phenomenon. The input data are from both the recording of rockfall events and
from the survey of fallen block volumes. The epistemic and aleatoric
uncertainties present in the approach affect the value of the parameters of
the law. It is shown how to quantify the errors due to missed events, to an
observation period of finite duration and to a limited set of measured
blocks. At the end, the procedure outputs corrective parameters to compute a
design volume for rockfall analysis and engineering calculations.