GEORISK. Advances in rockfall quantitative risk analysis (QRA) incorporating developments in geomatics

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Conminution test

On December 17 and 18, 2019, an essay was carry out at the Technology of Structures and Materials Laboratory (UPC. BarcelonaTech) to study the effect of the conminution among blocks.
A total of 92 launches were done from a height of 4.26m: 25 with a single bricks, 32 blocks of 3 stacked bricks and 35 block of 5 stacked bricks in different colors.

The impact of bricks were recorded by several cameras from different points of  view, one of them with high speed (400fps). See results at Matas et al. (2021)