Introduction Have you ever seen video footage of an avalanche or landslide rolling down a hill? Why is it that at one moment everything seems fine then suddenly the mountain begins to slump? This ...

This is the famous Bent Pyramid. The lower part of the pyramid has an angle of 54° and the upper part is at 43°. Why is it bent? Really, who knows. The two likely reasons are: Time or money (well ...

The trigger for most avalanches, including the one that claimed seven lives in Sikkim on Tuesday, is fresh precipitation. The physics at play depends on a number of factors, including the nature of ...

They tested a slope angle of 20 , on a hill facing either north, south, east, or west. The panel, monofacial or bifacial, was mounted in parallel to the slope. In the bifacial simulation, they assumed ...