VAGENAS NIKOLAOS

VAGENAS NIKOLAOS

engeo, University of Patras, Pátrai, Greece
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4Years (2023-Present)

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4 January 2023 in Land
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ASAikaterini Servou
Aikaterini Servou
VNVAGENAS NIKOLAOS
VAGENAS NIKOLAOS
Nikolaos DepountisNikolaos Depountis
Nikolaos Depountis
ZRZafeiria F Roumelioti
Zafeiria F Roumelioti
Efthimios SokosEfthimios Sokos
Efthimios Sokos
NSNikolaos Sabatakakis
Nikolaos Sabatakakis
Rockfall analysis is a multiparametric procedure with many uncertainties and the outputs are largely dependent on some critical engineering geological parameters involved in the used simulation model. In this paper, three completely different limestone rock sequences, named Pantokratoras, Vigla, and Paxos limestones along the western coastal slopes of Lefkada island, in Greece, are examined regarding their rockfall susceptibility as expressed by produced kinetic energy, under aseismic and seismic conditions. A rockfall inventory was prepared through detailed field measurements after the extensive rockfalls which were caused by the strong earthquake of November 2015, while engineering geological surveys were systematically conducted on the limestone rock masses. Two case scenarios were adopted for the rockfall simulations: one without the horizontal initial velocity of the detached rock boulder and the other with an estimated value obtained from the peak ground velocity (PGV) of the main seismic shock. Two-dimensional rockfall simulations were performed in selected cross-sections for each rock mass, and spatial distribution maps of the intensity (kinetic energy) were generated. A comparison of the maps has shown a strong maximum variation in the intensity levels among the three rock masses mainly due to the differential size of the detached boulders because of the inherent engineering geological characteristics of the rock masses. The results show that the earthquake ground velocity generally leads to a fluctuating change in the intensity values due to the trajectory shape and increases the rockfall magnitude as the main triggering factor.