Rockfall is a phenomenon which, when uncontrolled, may cause extensive material damage
and personal injury. One of the structures used to avoid accidents caused by debris flows or …

Flexible barriers are structures used to protect specific areas from falling rocks. In most
cases, barriers have energy dissipating devices (or brakes), that help to increase their …

A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) tension sensor for anchor rope has been proposed and
implemented in the full-scale impact test of rockfall protection barriers in this paper …

Nowadays, flexible barrier systems (FBSs) have been widely used to intercept rockfalls and
debris flows, protecting the public and the infrastructures within the range of threat …

Flexible barriers are widely employed as a protection system against rockfalls that may
cause dangerous circumstances. A flexible barrier system consists of wire nets, steel cables …