RTRI REPORT Sep. 2004
PAPERS

Development of Flexible and Simple Fence to Protect Small Rockfalls

Hisashi MURAISHI,    Masahiko SAMIZO    Tomoyasu SUGIYAMA
Ikuya Hosooka    Kazuhiro Ohata


  Countermeasures for rockfalls are very important to keep stable and safe railway transport. The authors newly developed a simple rockfall protection fence, which consists of component materials in general use and unique mesh nets that are flexible to deform. This report deals with the fundamental tests of the fence components and test procedures. Through systematic full-scale tests, efficient combinations of fence components and foundation types are found pertaining to different ground conditions.


* Full papers of RTRI Report are written in Japanese.

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