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Rockfall Protection - Gamsgrubenweg, Grossglockner 2013

Placement of the damping modules on top of the rockfall gallery. Elements size is 0.95 m x 0.95 m x 1.3 m

Rockfall Protection - Gamsgrubenweg, Grossglockner 2013

Cross-section of the rockfall protection gallery for hikers with ROCKFALL-X G on top as extra dumping layer

Rockfall Protection - Gamsgrubenweg, Grossglockner 2013

Big Bags and in between filling with cellular glass before covering with a geotextile

Rockfall Protection - Gamsgrubenweg, Grossglockner 2013

Filling of the gaps between ROCKFALL-X G bags with cellular glass

Rockfall Protection - Gamsgrubenweg, Grossglockner 2013

Cover with a geotextile

 

Systems

 

Year of installation

2013

Initial situation

To protect from rockfall on an alpine trail at the mountain Grossglockner in Austria, a new rockfall gallery was built between two tunnels.

Description

The damping system ROCKFALL-X G was used on top of the gallery to economically dampen rockfall impacts with a calculated energy of up to 800 kJ. For this purpose 85 bags of the 1.3 m high damping modules were prepared in Geobrugg factory and delivered directly to the construction site.

Country/Region

Austria

Customer

Grossglockner Hochalpenstrassen AG

Engineering

Ingenieurbüro Tschernutter Consulting GmbH

Contractor

Felbermayr Bau GmbH

Protected object

Road

Corrosion protection

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