The webinar «Anchoring of flexible natural hazard protection systems» aims at planners and project owners of natural hazard protection systems as well as at contractors who are involved in decisions around the anchoring of protection systems.

Anchoring is a vital part of all flexible natural hazard protection systems. The anchor forces are well known, and their determination is regulated by the EAD for «falling rock protection kits» or by the EAD for «flexible kits for retaining debris flows and shallow landslides / open hill debris flows». Producers of rockfall barriers and other flexible structures can hence provide these forces to the designer. The decision of how to anchor those forces is, however, very dependent on the underground and is usually left to the designer or geotechnical engineer. Besides the anchor length also the choice of the anchor type and foundation type and dimension is important.

With this webinar, we want to give you an overview of how anchor forces are determined, of possible anchoring systems and a review of experience with different anchoring systems.